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Hyundai Bets on Lithium-Ion Batteries

Posted August 12, 2010 8:08 AM

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The 2011 Sonata Hybrid will be the first mass-market car to use the battery technology. In December, Hyundai will launch the 2011 Sonata Hybrid, the world's first mass-market hybrid with a lithium-ion battery pack. Lithium cells provide much higher energy density than the conventional nickel-metal-hydride packs currently used in hybrids. As a result, the 1.6-kilowatt-hour pack weighs 96 pounds-compared to the 124 pounds of the 1.4-kilowatt-hour packs in Toyota hybrids.

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Re: Hyundai Bets on Lithium-Ion Batteries

08/13/2010 4:49 AM

Good for them, it sounds like they've tried to keep it simple.
if it's as good and reliable as my old Hyundai Accent which mty daught' still runs it will be a winner.
Hmmm although my daught's car just failed the MOT, but it is a 1998 model!
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