Saturday, June 18, 2011

The Current Condition and Future Potential of Automotive Batteries – Tech Dept.

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The Current Condition and Future Potential of Automotive Batteries - Tech Dept.

State of Charge: We examine the battery technology that makes hybrids and EVs go.

To most, the automotive battery is a 25-pound, 12-volt brick that needs to be jumped when the family truckster won’t start. To hybrid owners, a battery is an ersatz fuel tank that reduces the number of trips to the gas station. But there’s much more than that to these energy-storage devices, which vary  widely in terms of chemistry, size, and capacity. As more and more plug-ins and EVs enter the market, we thought it high time to examine the ongoing evolution of the automotive battery.

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