A123 makes batteries for electric cars and grid storage, technologies that China sees as a huge growth industry.
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China is now the largest exporter of solar panels and is fast expanding its capacity to produce wind turbines and advanced batteries for electric cars.
By early 2003 Wang envisioned not only a share of the wealth from China's auto industry but also tantalizing synergies: BYD could use its expertise to develop rechargeable batteries for electric cars.
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A123 makes batteries for electric and hybrid cars, and the electric grid.
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The company's decision followed Panasonic's move to streamline its unprofitable operations and focus more on competitive businesses such as selling home appliances, as well as rechargeable batteries for electric and hybrid cars.
Manufacturers from Michigan to Massachusetts are looking for new engineers to build advanced batteries for American-made electric cars.
When I came into office, advanced batteries, which are used, for example, in electric cars, we only accounted for 2 percent of the world market in advanced batteries.
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Mintzer has written a chapter about batteries for an upcoming Brookings Institution book on electric cars.
We're on track to create 700, 000 jobs across America building advanced batteries for hybrid cars, and modernizing our electric grid, and doubling our capacity to generate clean energy.
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It will let wind and solar power be transmitted to the cities, and smooth out peaks and troughs in demand for example by feeding power to the batteries of parked electric cars at night, and sucking it out of them during the day, if their owners agree.
Jobs for factory workers to build high-tech vehicle batteries, electric cars, and hybrid trucks.
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Now it is moving into batteries for hybrid vehicles and future plug-in hybrids and all-electric cars.
For those drivers whose electric cars do not indicate when their batteries are fully charged, Ford has created a handy placard to put on your windshield.
Forecasts made as recently as three months ago predicted that electric cars would become the leading application for lithium ion batteries by 2015, surpassing laptop PCs and other handheld devices.
Batteries are gradually getting better, which could result in electric cars being used for longer.
Ian Clifford, the chief executive of the Zenn Motor Company in Toronto, has done a deal with EEStor to replace the lead-acid batteries in the small, low-speed electric cars that his firm sells for urban use.
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