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Cash for Clunkers May Cost Up to $45,354 Per Vehicle

This is bunk since reports are that the program has already met it's target in a few days rather than a few months.

Li-ion Batteries: A Speculative Field of Dreams

You are such a partisan with an ax to grind it's ridiculous. Look, nimh and especially lead acid don't have the necessary specific energy to do the job in a full electric automobile. AKA: they're too heavy. That's all there is to it. Lithium ion lifetime is inadequate right now but lithium iron phosphate will bring sufficient duty cycle to do the job of powering an electric car. It's not complicated people. Do your research.