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Leading the battery charge:
Advanced batteries are betteries

by The Green A-Team

What ever happened to the electric car?

It just got 6 billion dollars to help charge it’s batteries.

President Obama inked the bill that will provide substantial funding to the further development of advanced batteries.  More than just rechargeable batteries for your TV remote, this category of tech development may be the most important to the success of the new energy plans now in motion.

Certainly the automotive industry has a lot to gain with hybrid-electric vehicles on deck to replace the current fleet. The US Advanced Battery Consortium comprised of domestic automakers like Chrysler, Ford, and GM, plans to continue development of high-power batteries to reduce their cost  and make a single battery to support electric, hybrid and fuel cell vehicles.

The bulk of the battery billions must be spent on actually building the facilities to make these batteries which, at present, are few and largely foreign.  According to the Wall Street Journal, unless U.S. industries get involved, we may be breaking an addiction to imported oil through the use of electric cars but replacing it with dependence on another imported item, batteries.

For more on advanced batteries, check out some of the following links:

Advanced Batteries (CleanTech Group, LLC)

Boosted tax breaks for advanced battery producers (WLAJ.com)

Battery advance lifts electric car hopes (CarbonPositive.com)

Photo by Jesus Presley.

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