Lutz hints at Pure EV Volt

[daniel]

Originally Posted by TransferFunction

OK, if NiMH batteries are not a good idea (patent problems) then maybe the solution is to use only half as many Li-Ion batteries, ...

Except that GM does not want to have to actually build the Volt. The cost of a 40-mile battery gives them an excuse to kill the project. Then when Toyota releases a PHEV-10, GM can say, "Sure we could have built a 10-mile car, but we feel that's not good enough." Any excuse not to actually put a partly-electric car on the road!

Originally Posted by tochatihu

The Cobasys patent issue is explained here:

EV World Blogs: Personal Perspectives on the Future In Motion

pretty well. ...

Very interesting article.

As I've commented before, we, as a nation, are allowing our national security to be compromised by an oil company that is using a patent to keep a national security technology off the market! The purpose of patents is to allow inventors to reap the rewards of their inventions. It's not supposed to be so that transnational corporations can prevent competing technologies from seeing the light of day. This is restraint of trade, and if the government were not corrupt to the very core, this would not be permitted.