PopSci talks to General Motors' director of Global Battery Systems
Posted 09.23.2011 at 11:58 am
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To succeed, electric cars require batteries that store the greatest possible amount of energy in the smallest, lightest, safest, and cheapest package possible. But batteries pose a brutal technical challenge--one subject to all manner of misunderstandings and misinformation. Can today's lithium-ion batteries cut it? What new battery technologies lie on the horizon?
Today from 2:30 to 3:30 pm Eastern time, GM's director of Global Battery Systems, Bill Wallace, and PopSci's Seth Fletcher, author of Bottled Lightning: Superbatteries, Electric Cars, and the New Lithium Economy
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Just curious, does anyone have any recommended web-sites for how these battery powered vehicles operate in cold weather. Sometimes here in Alaska it can go down to -40 degrees (farenheit). It seems that there are standard plug-ins everywhere, because people plug in their battery warmers and oil pan heaters when they are at home or work during the winter season.
Can a person charge these vehicles at work on a standard plug? I believe it is 120 not 220.
oops. In my previous comment. I stated 120 I meant a 110 plug.
110 to 120vAC will work just fine. ;)