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Nissan to begin mass-production of lithium-ion batteries by 2009

Monday 19th May, 04:53 PM JST

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  • GrouchyGaijin at 06:56 AM JST - 20th May

    And THIS is indicative of a future trend, gasoline-electric hybrid cars. The first wave of a move towards hybrids and plug-ins replacing standard ICE vehicles.

  • Zen_Builder at 07:12 AM JST - 20th May

    And it means little to nothing to reducing oil-consumption.

    Lets look at history they had electric cars 100+yrs ago but they lost to the petrol engine as petrol is a by-product of oil-refination(4th stage if I recall) and thus was a cheaper fuel.

    Even today petrol makes up a very small amount of oil-consumption, most goes into lubricants, plastics, clothes, etc that and the industry use daily.

    So all this blap about alternate fuels, energies, etc is just a money making effort and don't address the REAL problem only hurts us in wheat, korn, etc prices.

    Reason why plastics are cheap is because they can be easily transformed/shaped but the raw-material itself is VERY expensive.

    HTH.

  • Zen_Builder at 07:19 AM JST - 20th May

    Forgot to add.

    Hybrid, etc cars still need lubricants, plastics, etc to perform.

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