Any idea how much space this pack takes up, or how much it weighs? Also, does this pack require any sort of cooling to maintain efficiency? Cost?

Anyway, its small steps like these that are helping us towards making great strides in our future transportation, our future EV transportation. My applause is to be assumed audible.

Well, their 45AH LiCoO2 batteries are 1.55kg

Maybe about 1.25kg for a 35AH LiFePO4 battery assuming little difference in weight of the components. That would be roughly 79kg or about 173lbs for the cells themselves. That rack probably adds 30-40lbs if made out of lower cost materials.

How are we going to "Support Our Troops" if Lithion-type batteries replace half the petroleum that is our God-Given right to run our cars on if we want to and employ right-thinking America-lovers doing their duty to God and country to fight for that petroleum? We're talking unemployed military men, their poor wives struggling to make ends meet on military pay, and their one-parent neglected children! On leave, how are military families gonna drive the kids across the country to Disneyland on batteries that discharge after a few dozen miles? How will military widows get to their distant minimum wage jobs that welfare requires them to take with cars whose batteries make them too expensive to buy? USA! USA! We're Number One! Huh?

Many of the current electric only cars get about 200 watt hour to the mile.
7500 / 300 = 25 miles of range. ie this is a pack you want to have a generator with. It would make a great motorcycle battery though. My electric bike gets about 8-12 miles per kwh on lead acid without regen. which puts the range at 50 miles.

Freeway speeds 80 miles per hour times 200 watts per mile is:
0.2 * 80 = 16 /0.7 = 23 horsepower genpack to keep up.

-Michael

By the way, I much prefer fewer higher capacity cells.

Wells,

Don't worry overmuch about what our military men will do for a living.

If they aren't busy securing our energy supply from raving Islamic lunatics, they will still keep busy preventing those Islamic lunatics from reaching America as they did on 9/11. Or Iranian lunatics from developing nuclear weapons, or North Korean lunatics with nuclear weapons from bringing back the golden age of communist dictatorships.

Not to worry. There is plenty of work to do for our brave fighting men.

My earlier post was an attempt to achieve Memorial Day irony. Muslims surely cringe at casual assumptions that their nation's oil wealth is our energy supply to be secured through military means. It may be that US sponsored Iranian nuclear power development in the 1970's was meant solely for conserving Iranian oil for export to the USA. In other words, once again the US brings calamity upon its people.

Transportation must evolve beyond simply building a technologically better car, else we slack-skinned automatons may never achieve the status of human.

There is a book I read titled "Resource Wars" that is a credible review of the worlds resources and how 9 billion people will need them over the next 50 years. Fresh water resources took up at least one chapter in the book.

With this announcement from Lithium Technology is seems to me that there now are 3 serious contenders for the US market for automotive lithium batteries 1) saft-johnson, 2) a123, and 3) Lithium Technology. This is very good news. Wonder what is the chemistry the saft automotives batteries?

Way to completely miss the point Mike. No one was insulting the troops in anyway, just the policy makers that misuse those troops. The best way to support our troops is to keep them at home and alive.

"The situation in the world is more complex than some star wars or x-men movie."

Couldn't agree more. Too bad Rumsfeld and co. were too ignorant to understand that before they invaded Iraq without a plan. And don't kid yourself about their motives either, it's about the OIL.

Personally I don't lean to the right or left (I kind of sag in the middle) and I see a world full of dictators both right and left wing.

Nothing wrong with the US people or their form of government that couldn't be solved with an educational system and news media that started looking beyond their own borders. You don't need listen to Michael Moore for anything more than entertainment if you get some news with a global point of view (ex. guardian weekly, the economist, or BBC)

Fidel Castro said: The USA can't be destroyed from the outside, only from within: Liberals will do it.

Neil: "Guardian weekly" and BBC

heheheheheh -- Guardian is a den of lies and nobody takes that seriously but leftists. I thought you said you are a liberal. You are not. Guardian doesn't give a hoot about human rights or our liberties. Guardian is a well known mouthpiece for the totalitarian left. eheheheheheh

BBC? You mean the outfit that taxes British TV viewers to construct more left and Islamist oriented programming? You mean the outfit that does not have to earn its keeps and compete with the rest of us? That can put its hands in our pockets and self-preserve itself and become an ideological den answerable to no one, while bashing the US, even when al-Qaeda blows up 200 people in the Baghdad marketplace?

What a joke.