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2011 Nissan Leafs Start Losing Capacity Bars: Should You Worry?
It had to happen some time, just not perhaps as quickly as this. Since Nissan’s all-electric Leaf hatchback launched in late 2010, many have been watching with interest to see how long it would be before the car’s 24 kilowatt-hour battery pack showed the gradual reduction in range and...
2012 Ford Focus Battery Pack Cost: $12,000-$15,000, Says CEO
Over the past few years, there’s been a lot of speculation surrounding the actual cost to automakers of the lithium-ion battery packs used in most modern electric cars... April 18, 2012 by Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield 9
Honda Starts Hybrid Battery Pack Rare Earth Metal Recycling
Over the past few decades, demand for rare earth metals, has dramatically increased. So called because they are difficult to find in large deposits and often difficult to... April 18, 2012 by Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield 6
Battery Cell Maker A123 Gets More Time To Use DoE Grant Funds
This is a tough time for lithium-ion cell maker A123 Systems, but the company did get one little piece of good news yesterday. The U.S. Department of Energy has agreed to... April 13, 2012 by John Voelcker 4
GM Battery Lab Explosion Attributed To Gases From A123 Cells
UPDATE, Thu, April 12, 11:15 am: The Detroit News quotes an unnamed source this morning as saying that the battery pack being tested that caused yesterday's explosion at GM's... April 12, 2012 by John Voelcker 19
How Long Will Your Electric Car Battery Last? Science Is On The Case
We all know that battery packs are the biggest Achilles Heel of the electric car, which is why automakers like Nissan and General Motors are working hard to improve the... April 12, 2012 by Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield 10
How Much Range Does Your Leaf Lose If You Unplug It For 8 Days?
Remember Michael DeGusta, the guy who indadvertedly ‘bricked’ his oh-so-expensive Tesla Roadster after storing it in an almost-empty state for nearly two months?... April 10, 2012 by Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield 9
BMW To Develop Future Lithium-Ion Batteries With Toyota
Lithium-ion battery cells are expensive, challenging, and time-consuming to develop. And they can be hard to get right, as the current woes of A123 Systems show. Even the... March 27, 2012 by John Voelcker 9
A123 Systems To Recall Electric-Car Battery Packs For Fisker, Others
Hundreds of recalls a year get announced for gasoline cars, the vast majority completely under the radar. The high visibility of the electric-car business makes any recalls... March 26, 2012 by John Voelcker 5
How Much And How Fast Will Electric-Car Battery Costs Fall?
You hear both sides of the battery cost question a lot when you cover electric cars. One side says, "Electric-car batteries will be brutally expensive for many years to come... March 16, 2012 by John Voelcker 61
Will Old Electric-Car Battery Packs Cause Horrible Pollution?
It's an assertion that comes up a lot in comments on our stories. It goes, essentially, like this: No one recognizes the horrible pollution problems that will arrive when... March 14, 2012 by John Voelcker 10
Ener1, Owner Of Lithium Cell Firm, To Emerge From Bankruptcy
Ener1, the company that owns lithium-ion cell maker EnerDel, will emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the next two weeks, according to a recent statement by the company. The... March 5, 2012 by Andrew Montiveo 4
Battery Maker A123 To Supply Cells For Tata Hybrid Buses
Lithium-ion cell maker A123 Systems announced today that it would supply complete battery packs to Tata Motors, the largest vehicle maker in India, to be used in hybrid... March 1, 2012 by John Voelcker
New Battery Promises To Bring 300-Mile Electric Cars To The Masses
Here at GreenCarReports, we’re fans of all-electric cars, but even we have to admit that most electric cars on the market today suffer from the same problem: limited... February 27, 2012 by Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield 33
Is Tesla 'Bricking' Story Just An Angry Owner's Warranty Claim?
And now perhaps it all becomes clear. The Tesla battery 'bricking' post that was today's electric-car news story and generated reams of coverage may simply be an attempt by... February 22, 2012 by John Voelcker 97
Tesla Battery 'Bricking': The Real Story Behind The Scare
Late last night, a sensational blog post circulated through Silicon Valley. It claimed that several $100,000-plus Tesla Roadsters were now useless as the result of a... February 22, 2012 by John Voelcker 23
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