Re: Matsushita (Panasonic) battery announcement

["Lawrence Rhodes" <bassoon@jps.net>]

It seems that the new EV1with the Panasonic batteries goes farther than with
what ever lead acid battery they used before.  How is this explained?
Thanks for any info Lawrence Rhodes....
----- Original Message -----
From: PETER VANDERWAL <peterv@peoplepc.com>
To: <ev@listproc.sjsu.edu>
Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2000 12:53 AM
Subject: Re: Matsushita (Panasonic) battery announcement


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