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pencilvanian
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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 Posted - 09/14/2009 : 19:33:45
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Toyota Remains With Nickel After Lithium Prius Test
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Sept. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Toyota Motor Corp., the biggest seller of hybrid autos, is sticking with nickel as the preferred battery material for most of the vehicles after three years of secretly testing Prius hatchbacks with lithium-ion packs.
Toyota last month ended road tests of 126 Priuses in the U.S., Japan and Europe that began in 2006, Jana Hartline, a company spokeswoman said in an interview. Details of the program, in which the cars’ nickel metal hydride batteries were replaced with more expensive lithium models, weren’t released.
Automakers are introducing models all or partly powered by lithium-ion batteries holding twice the energy of nickel packs. While Toyota’s lithium version performed well and gave “small” fuel-economy gains because of lighter weight, nickel is favored for conventional, mass-market hybrids for its cost, said Kazuo Tojima, the carmaker’s senior staff engineer for batteries
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Apocalypto
Penny Sorter Member
Canada
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Posted - 09/23/2009 : 00:28:00
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Thanks for this. Nice post. I'll offer something for everyone's perusal as well. (In this same sort of area) Some of you may have heard that China threatened to block the export of rare earth metals (these are also heavily used in the production of hybrid vehicles.)
They recently eased up on the threat, but take it for what it is worth:
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As such, a North American stock that I have been following (disclosure: do not own any, YET) called Avalon is definitely worth a look.
Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (AVL: TSX)
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Good luck to all.
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Edited by - Apocalypto on 09/23/2009 00:28:49 |
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Toyota prefers nickel to lithium-ion
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