Re: Matsushita (Panasonic) battery announcement

["PETER VANDERWAL" <peterv@peoplepc.com>]

> This is the technology I was talking about Peter....Larry Rhodes.....

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> > Tokyo, Japan - Matsushita Battery Industrial Co. announced it will be
> > marketing a new low-cost, high-performance, lead-acid battery that lasts
> > twice as long and gives double the power of conventional electric
vehicle
> > (EV) batteries,

See, exactly what I was talking about.  What exactly is a conventional EV
battery?  Flooded batteries?  After all that's what's in most EVs today.

Also they say that recharging them will only cost 1/3 of what it costs to
recharge their (Panasonic's) NiMH batteries.  Their NiMH must really suck,
this would mean that their NiMH are less than 33% efficient.