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To: TH who wrote (93869)4/27/2008 11:16:02 PM
From: patron_anejo_por_favor  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 110194
 
>>I've been looking for a very interesting article about an Auburn Hills battery technology company. The story is, from the ex-owner himself, that GM bought them out with a majority ownership and basically killed any actual interest in implementation.<<

Are you thinking of Cobasys or Ovonic Battery, Inc?

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If I'm not mistaken, they made the 2nd generation Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) battery used in the later versions of the GM EV1. The founder was a guy named Stanford Ovshinsky, a battery genius of sorts.....

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