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To: Javelyn Bjoli who wrote (1385)	11/18/1997 8:20:00 PM
From: wm sharp	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27311

Javelyn - Re your post on EV status, I seem to remember a news item about a New York law requiring a significant percentage of electric vehicles (probably specified as sales?) by a target date, fairly soon. Do you have any details on this? If such a law is indeed on the books, can we expect the target date to be pushed out, for practical or political reasons? Thanks.

To: Javelyn Bjoli who wrote (1385)	11/18/1997 11:32:00 PM
From: jcox	Respond to of 27311

Dear Javelyn Thanks for the great posts. I thought of another reason GM would be very interested in a lithium car ignition battery. I read somewhere that because manufacturers like to put the battery in the front of the car for easy access but it can play hell with car design. If you could half the 40 lbs wieght that far from the cars center of gravity I'm sure you could improve the ride and possibly use a less costly suspension. The new Buick Riviera has the battery under the back seat. I guess they thought that someone who bought that car would be more interested in the ride versus how easy it is to jump start. John

To: Javelyn Bjoli who wrote (1385)	11/19/1997 3:01:00 AM
From: Gordon Quickstad	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27311

Javelyn, David posted: " They have no plans for the hand held tool market or the mobile two way radio market. The Li Ion cells are not compatible with the high energy output required by these devices." I've believed that there are problems with LP in very high current applications; that NiMH batteries were better suited for this. Does this mean LP has a higher internal resistance? If so, doesn't this hurt many applications - even SLI (starting, lighting, ignition, i.e. "car battery")? There haven't been any recent milestone payments from Delphi so I would think that the car battery application is dead if it can't crank a V8 in Minnesota in January.