Panasonic Use Notebook Batteries to Power Electric Cars

According to Nikkei, the largest business publication in Japan, Panasonic was thinking of how to feed their electric cars using lithium-ion batteries, the same used in netbooks.  It would lower some costs as we might expect.

They would be to replace the dozens of lithium batteries that are usually needed to power the electric car with thousands of cylindrical batteries originally designed for netbooks. It has positive effect on costs.

The goal of this is that Panasonic wants to lower the cost of the power system in midsize cars from $ 33,000 (22.697 euros) that cost now, to $ 11.000 (7.565 euros) which is a huge discount.

The idea is good, and indeed already been thought of by the company Tesla’s Roadster in 2008 to use batteries designed for domestic appliances.

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Vía | CrunchGear

October 3, 2009 · Posted in Transportation 

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