Battery leases make comeback--electric car conspiracy fans take note
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Two start-ups are coming that will lease, rather than sell batteries to consumers. Isn't this what big, bad GM did?
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Long-lasting, rechargeable cell phone battery relies on hydrogen gas for power.
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Homes are increasingly filled with refrigerators, plasma TV sets, and lap pools that drive up energy costs.
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Although a number of companies are working to develop higher-powered batteries for laptops and high-tech gadgets, real breakthroughs in the technology could be a decade away.
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Researchers are working on autonomous robots that eat to produce energy. The problem right now is that batteries are much better. By Lakshmi Sandhana.
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Those dealer contracts have to be broken or skirted for electric cars to get to the mass market.
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In the face of GM's swift time table for the Chevy Volt, rival automaker says it has good reason to move more slowly on its own plug-in electric car.
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Science & environment: Luxury car brand could swap 1950s glamour for a hydrogen-powered car that drives itself
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If motorists used rechargeable "plug-in" hybrid-electric vehicles in large numbers, the United States could see a significant drop in greenhouse gas emissions by the middle of the century, according to a study released yesterday.
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Nanowire electrodes could improve the performance of electric vehicles.
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Tesla made the electric car fancy. Now Fisker wants to do the same for the plug-in hybrid.
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Lithium ion technology got burnt in the summer's recall season, but Boston Power says it has a better way to deliver the power.
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I'm strange.  I love to measure things.  I've used a GPS receiver to find the optimal parking situation at work, I measure the costs of meetings (based on estimates of what I think people make), and I've even measured the effects of different driving techniques and the resulting impact on fuel economy.  Yes, I'm strange.
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With satellite radio and power outlets for an ever-expanding list of electronic gizmos, there's no denying the modern automobile can be a comfortable, convenient place to work.
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Hybrids didn't keep up with the rest of the auto industry's offerings in the weeks before the November election, but resurgent fuel prices should keep the gas-electric cars popular. In Autopia.
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From the outside, it looks like business as usual at the Consumer Product Safety Commission . The agency issued more than a dozen voluntary recall notices during the first two weeks of this month, pulling off the market batteries that can ignite, hooded sweatshirts with drawstrings that can choke...
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