While memory effect was an issue on NiCad batteries, Lithium Ion units don't suffer from the same issue.
It takes 4.8 seconds to get to 62 mph, and with a t-shaped lithium-ion battery pack has 155 miles of cruising range.
The ELR will run on an electric propulsion system made of a T-shaped lithium ion battery, an electric drive unit and a four-cylinder engine generator.
Toyota's top hybrid engineers say they are all for plug-ins, but they don't think the lithium-ion batteries they depend on will be ready to meet their stringent quality standards for several years. (They cannot resist a polite titter about spontaneously combusting laptop batteries.) Toyota is therefore likely to stick with the heavy and range-limited nickel-metal hydride battery for the third-generation Prius, due in 2009.
Cells that run on alcohol don't produce enough electricity to be competitive with lithium.
Austin has operations by Freescale Semiconductor, which has a long track record with General Motors and ActaCell, started as a spinoff from U-T, which is developing the next generation of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles.
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Japanese car makers defended the safety of lithium-ion batteries, saying several years of good results shouldn't be tarnished by two recent incidents.
It currently doesn't believe the cause was its ( previously recalled) Lithium-ion battery, exhaust routing or electrical components, having learned that the ignition zone was outside the engine compartment, in front of the driver's side front tire.
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To address the concern, PatientsLikeMe developed an algorithm that matched 149 patients taking lithium with at least one other ALS patient on the site who didn't take the drug.
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Two conventional on-going ALS studies are designed to see if lithium has a very small effect on survival, something the PatientsLikeMe study wouldn't be able to pick up.
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The study didn't find any difference in disease progression a year after treatment between those taking lithium and the control group, researchers said.
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Seamless metal containers still have myriad uses in the high-tech age: they make particularly good casings for long-life lithium ion batteries, used in mobile phones and notebook computers, since they don't corrode as welded casings do.
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