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UDRI Engineers Create First Solid-State Lithium-Air Battery

A team at the prestigious University of Dayton Research Institute (UDRI) has designed a new kind of rechargeable Lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery that it claims eliminates the potential overheating problems that can affect conventional Li-ion cells. The achievement, chronicled in the 2010 Issue 1 of the Journal of the Electrochemical Society, opens the door to much broader and safer implementation of Li-ion battery packs throughout all facets of industry, and has particularly critical implications for future automotive and aerospace applications. According to Binod Kumar, who heads up UDRI's electrochemical power group, the first-ever totally solid-state Lithium-air battery "represents a major advancement in the quest for a commercially viable, safe...
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Financing Crunch Postpones Aptera 2e Intro Until 2010

This has been a somewhat tumultuous week for nascent electric vehicle manufacturer Aptera. The Vista, California, based purveyor-to-be of the three-wheeled Aptera 2e announced some significant changes, not the least was that supplemental funding issues had caused the scheduled rollout of its first production vehicles to be pushed back from the end of this year to sometime in 2010. Accompanying that news was word that Aptera's co-founders Chris Anthony and Steve Fambro would be "stepping aside from day-to-day activities" for a while, although both remain on the board of directors. Expanding demands of other business involvements leave Anthony's future role unclear (he also heads up Epic Boats and Flux Power), but Fambro, Aptera's chief technical...
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