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Rechargeable Car Battery Development: From Buggies to Hybrids and Electric Cars

By Tom Bartley • Mar 12th, 2009 • Category: Battery Technology for Hybrid and Electric Cars

Electric cars with an electric motor and rechargeable batteries developed quite early. However, the first person that experienced a dead battery before returning to the charging port realized that battery capacity and vehicle running range could be a problem.



Harnessing Electrical Energy: Batteries and Battery Packs Explained

By Tom Bartley • Mar 5th, 2009 • Category: Battery Technology for Hybrid and Electric Cars

A battery is a hunk of something that has some stored energy that can be accessed to convert into some other energy. So what do you do when higher energy and/or power is needed? It’s actually pretty simple. Batteries can be assembled as multi-cell battery packs and packs of packs.