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Environment & Energy

freethought

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3. Ok! Great! But,

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Wed Apr 17, 2013, 10:32 PM

Apr 2013

can these batteries be scaled up to run something like an electric car? They may have created something in the lab but can that thing be massed produced on an industrial scale? What about the cost?

I don't like to be naysayer when it comes to the potential for moving us into electric cars but just because they accomplished something in the lab does not mean it can be applied real world?

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