battery-powered Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 01 Nov 2016 13:12:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 How Toyota Changed Its Mind About Battery Powered Vehicles https://www.greenoptimistic.com/toyota-battery-powered-vehicles-20161101/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/toyota-battery-powered-vehicles-20161101/#respond Tue, 01 Nov 2016 13:11:07 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=60715 Toyota, one of the biggest carmakers in the world, has been recently badmouthing lithium battery technology and the companies using it – namely Tesla. They even built an entire media campaign around an alternative to the alternative: hydrogen fuel cells, the distribution infrastructure and storage devices. All those electric car companies were about to fall […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/toyota-battery-powered-vehicles-20161101/feed/ 0 60715 Better Batteries Will Alleviate Concerns over Hybrid Car Reliability https://www.greenoptimistic.com/better-batteries-will-alleviate-concerns-over-hybrid-car-reliability-20121223/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/better-batteries-will-alleviate-concerns-over-hybrid-car-reliability-20121223/#respond Sun, 23 Dec 2012 06:31:27 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=30335 One of the greatest challenges hybrid automobiles have faced is the perception that battery-powered or battery-assisted vehicles do long have a long life and therefore are unreliable. Researchers are working on identifying, analyzing, and improving materials to create better batteries to combat this issue. The main issue is energy storage, and researchers feel it is […]

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