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To: craig crawford who wrote (184)	6/10/2001 12:10:17 PM
From: craig crawford	Read Replies (1) of 1643

Sunday May 27 1:12 PM ET Hybrid Electric Vehicle Seen As Clean But Slow By Karen Norton dailynews.yahoo.com Ford aims to offer hybrid Escape models from 2003. On its Web site it said the vehicles will achieve up to 40 miles per gallon in city driving and travel up to 500 miles on a single tank of gasoline. Woolf said the vehicle would initially use nickel-metal hydride batteries, but added that General Motors was leaning toward lead-acid batteries for its SUV models. In the industry, a battle for HEV battery configuration is raging between nickel-metal hydride and lead-acid technologies and this was also seen as being unaffected by the tax breaks. Toyota's Prius and Honda's Insight have opted for nickel- metal hydride batteries. Analysts said nickel-metal hydride batteries had better chemistry and further development was needed for lead-acid technology to cope with the heavy duty cycle required for HEVs. But some were confident the lead-acid camp could make up lost ground, simply because of cost advantages. The Electric Vehicle Association's Woolf said a lead-acid battery pack for HEVs costs around $200. Other technologies were at least three or four times as expensive and the car industry was not willing to pay such a price in the longer term, he said. ``In the early year or two, lead won't be there -- but it will be in the longer term,'' ALABC's Moseley said. Potentially, lead would have much to lose if nickel maintained a stranglehold on HEVs, given that around three-quarters of the six million tons per year market is used in batteries -- mainly for automotive uses.

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