metal-air Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 20 Sep 2013 10:47:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Tesla Motors Patents a Dual-Battery Electric Vehicle Design for More Range https://www.greenoptimistic.com/tesla-motors-patents-dual-battery-electric-vehicle-design-range-20130919/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/tesla-motors-patents-dual-battery-electric-vehicle-design-range-20130919/#respond Thu, 19 Sep 2013 20:10:42 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=41734 Take a quick peek through the Tesla Motors archives, and I’m fairly certain you won’t find anything resembling an electric vehicle range extender like Fisker Karma or Chevy Volt. Go ahead, I’ll wait… Wait, gasoline, in an electric vehicle? What kind of craziness would that be? Still, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk isn’t above range […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/tesla-motors-patents-dual-battery-electric-vehicle-design-range-20130919/feed/ 0 41734 Phinergy’s Recycled Aluminum-Air Battery Could Power Future EVs https://www.greenoptimistic.com/phinergy-recycled-aluminum-air-battery-20130326/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/phinergy-recycled-aluminum-air-battery-20130326/#comments Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:14:27 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=35334 Aluminum-Air batteries [AlO2] are nothing new, but a recent innovation by Phinergy, as well as compelling test data, could solve electric vehicle range concerns. We all know the arguments against electric vehicles, “Unless you spend $100,000, you can’t get any decent range out of an electric vehicle,” or “Electric vehicles take too long to charge.” A […]

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