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FOR all the excitement surrounding the development of electric vehicles, a fundamental limiting factor remains: storage. How, after all, does one coax more miles out of a fully electric vehicle without creating a battery so big, and so heavy, that it cripples the car?

To the extent that the Obama administration has made answering that question a national priority, it’s not surprising that nearly $40 million in federal stimulus funds for battery and electric car education — much of it at the graduate level — was announced in August.

“If we really are going to go toward electric vehicles or hybrid vehicles, the storage capacity simply has to improve,” says Mary Sue Coleman, the president of the University of Michigan, which received $2.5 million for programs at both graduate and undergraduate levels. “There just hasn’t been a breakthrough..."


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Agent63 - 1/1/2010 7:54:59 PM

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This is a filler article that was posted for New Years Eve!. It's not exciting enough for people to read!

XYZZ - 1/2/2010 7:46:44 AM

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hybrids and EVs are the vehicles of the future.

the new frontier in automotive research, is improving the energy density of batteries. whoever makes the first LIGHT WEIGHT high capacity batteries will dominate the market. (battery, not car mfgr.)