Dave K.

What Lies Ahead for Hybrid Car Investors?

As the CTO for a company working on electrical energy storage technology in competition to batteries I wish to add is that EVs will be the long term future and it will take 8 years for the technology to settle down/shake out. In the end fast recharge <5 minutes will be the standard and storage technology will be $50 to $150 dollars per kilo-watt-hr. That is the reality of the technology I am working on and it is easily scaled to large volume production. During the 8 year period battery companies will come and go and investors have to try and identify the Google, Microsoft, E-Bay, Amazon of that market sooner rather than latter. My suggestion as a technical expert is look at the battery company’s 1. manufacturing cost per kilo-watt-hour; 2. is it practical for automotive use (robust); 3. is the company over-hyped which in my book is used to hide the loud gobbling sound of the turkey product? Dave Kelly CTO, I can be contacted through 1-ltl.com
Good Luck

Response to Jack Lifton's 'Lithium Batteries: Nothing But Illusion'

Lisa, (or anyone)
If Lithium is 1% the cost of the battery then the expensive part of the battery or manufacturing process has been missed. If it isn't Lithium making the batteries expensive then what is? Knowing this will allow an educated decision by investors whether the Lithium batteries will become competitive in price.
I represent a competing electric energy storage technology, so same interest in their costs just different reason for needing to know. Dave