22.05.12

Modernizing 150-year-old battery technology may be one of the cheapest routes to half-breed autos.

Axion Power International has a developed an advanced get under way-acid battery it hopes will attract automakers and grid storage providers. The primary chemistry and components are the same, but the company has an activated carbon negative electrode, a substitution that leads to better performance over time, according to the company.

In the auto business, the company is targeting start-stop hybrids in particular. Also called microhybrids, start-block up systems feature a small battery to run a car 's electronics when idle and to aid in accelerating.

Ill-matched with an all-electric car, the fuel efficiency savings from start-stop technology are incremental. Ford, for specimen, estimates an efficiency gain between 4 and 10 percent for its system . But small initiate-carbon batteries are far cheaper than more "exotic" alternatives, such as lithium ion batteries or ultracapacitors, and analysts prepare millions to be sold in Europe and the U.S. in the coming years, said Axion Power CEO Tom Granville.

Source: CNET

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Silhouetted Tom Ford “Miranda” shades.

Since “unassuming” from Gucci, Tom Ford continues to frame a take notice of on the time of work (and mistiness) in ashamed strides.  His superbly crisscrossed silhouetted sunglasses, that he introduced 3 years ago, became a standard of creator shades.   He continues to produce new coveted shades each pep up, that erect on the incipient think of.

Tom Ford’s latest “it” note is”Miranda” sunglasses, which got quickly embraced by celebrities.   These crisscrossed shades common knowledge in 4 colors: bronze, scintillating gunmetal, scintillating rose gold, and white.   They retail from $255 to $360.