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EnerDel hybrid plug-in battery to cost $1,500

Discussion in 'Prius, Hybrid, EV and Alt-Fuel News' started by Eric Nothman, Sep 27, 2007.

  1. Eric Nothman

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    Here is a start-up with $6.5 million grant from US Advanced Battery Consortium to provide plug-in hybrid batteries at a cost of $1,500 to car manufacturers for the 2010 model year (starts in 2009). They use lithium titanate (similar to Altair Nano technologies) reporting a cost that is half that of current NiMH => http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9780680-7...l?tag=nefd.blgs
     
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    The technical and marketing issues for EnerDel, and the plug-in industry in general, still need to be fine-tuned. But customers are receptive to the idea, according to Gassenheimer.

    "This is a major supply problem, not a demand problem," he said.


    By then, there will probably be 65 hybrid cars on the market, he estimated. Right now, there are 15, he said.
     
    #2 etyler88, Sep 28, 2007
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    Something is not right here. The current plug-in NiMH battery pack cost more than $3,000. How did they get $1,500 for this EnerDel pack?
     
    #3 usbseawolf2000, Sep 28, 2007
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(usbseawolf2000 @ Sep 28 2007, 09:34 AM) [snapback]518942[/snapback]</div>
    In the future, assuming mass production and a few key breakthroughs, everything is cheaper. They're talking "hopes to deliver" by 2010 model year prices. Promising news, but firmly on my "I'll be happy when I see it" pile.
     
    #4 jweale, Sep 29, 2007
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(usbseawolf2000 @ Sep 28 2007, 09:34 AM) [snapback]518942[/snapback]</div>
    And it's lithium ion, so its really a different set of materials.
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(usbseawolf2000 @ Sep 28 2007, 09:34 AM) [snapback]518942[/snapback]</div>
    What "plug-in NiMH battery" are you talking about. There is none in production.

    $1500 is the expected wholesale price for the EnerDel battery. The Prius hybrid battery wholesale price is currently $1100 (retail is $2200).

    JeffD
     
    #6 jdenenberg, Oct 7, 2007
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    That's what I was thinking; $1500 wholesale, $3000 retail.

    And how many miles? 10, 20, 40?
     
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    Maybe (???) with so many companies promising to deliver battery technology, one of them will actually come through during the lifetime of my ZAP Xebra. Maybe.

    If I was emperor of the world right now, I would issue an edict that any company issuing a press release promising to produce an EV or a new battery technology would have to post a bond of one million dollars or 15% of the value of the company, whichever is greater, and would have to include a date in the press release. If the product is not on the market by that date, meeting the specs in the press release, they would forfeit the bond.

    I am sick and tired of promises. I want products.
     
    #8 daniel, Oct 7, 2007
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