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11.28.09

Stop Snickering: ExxonMobil Lends Tech to Launch Electric Car

The world's largest publicly traded oil company is supporting an urban electric car-sharing program. Let the jokes commence
By Mike Spinelli Posted 06.25.2009 at 9:43 am 6 Comments

An oil company helping launch an electric car? The jokes write themselves. (Launch it where, into space?) But it's true: low-speed electric carmaker Electrovaya launched its Maya-300 car this week with help from ExxonMobil. The oil giant's "SuperPolymer" separator film is used in production of Electrovaya's lithium-ion battery. But wait, there's more.

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