Here is a start-up with $6.5 million grant from US Advanced Battery Consortium to provide plug-in hybrid batteries at a cost of $1,500 to car manufacturers for the 2010 model year (starts in 2009). They use lithium titanate (similar to Altair Nano technologies) reporting a cost that is half that of current NiMH => http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9780680-7...l?tag=nefd.blgs
more quotes The technical and marketing issues for EnerDel, and the plug-in industry in general, still need to be fine-tuned. But customers are receptive to the idea, according to Gassenheimer. "This is a major supply problem, not a demand problem," he said. By then, there will probably be 65 hybrid cars on the market, he estimated. Right now, there are 15, he said.
Something is not right here. The current plug-in NiMH battery pack cost more than $3,000. How did they get $1,500 for this EnerDel pack?
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(usbseawolf2000 @ Sep 28 2007, 09:34 AM) [snapback]518942[/snapback]</div> In the future, assuming mass production and a few key breakthroughs, everything is cheaper. They're talking "hopes to deliver" by 2010 model year prices. Promising news, but firmly on my "I'll be happy when I see it" pile.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(usbseawolf2000 @ Sep 28 2007, 09:34 AM) [snapback]518942[/snapback]</div> And it's lithium ion, so its really a different set of materials.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(usbseawolf2000 @ Sep 28 2007, 09:34 AM) [snapback]518942[/snapback]</div> What "plug-in NiMH battery" are you talking about. There is none in production. $1500 is the expected wholesale price for the EnerDel battery. The Prius hybrid battery wholesale price is currently $1100 (retail is $2200). JeffD
Maybe (???) with so many companies promising to deliver battery technology, one of them will actually come through during the lifetime of my ZAP Xebra. Maybe. If I was emperor of the world right now, I would issue an edict that any company issuing a press release promising to produce an EV or a new battery technology would have to post a bond of one million dollars or 15% of the value of the company, whichever is greater, and would have to include a date in the press release. If the product is not on the market by that date, meeting the specs in the press release, they would forfeit the bond. I am sick and tired of promises. I want products.
