GLG News by Lead Acid Battery Experts

Gold has no utilitarian value whatsoever. Oil, however, is intrinsically the single most valuable commodity in the world and will remain so until the production of electric energy and the fueling of ordinary passenger and freight carrying vehicles in a nation no longer uses more oil than that nation...

Mercedes is leading the green charge in European luxury cars. It is bringing its Bluetec diesel engines to the market to improve fuel efficiency and lower emissions for its premium cars. Mercedes also keeps talking about a plug-in hybrid using a 'lithium' battery that is supposed to be coming soon....

Both Nissan and Mitsubishi Motors have formed joint ventures with battery producers in Japan to produce batteries for electric vehicles.  This follows the example of the well-established Toyota-Panasonic JV that already produces batteries for hybrid electric vehicles like the Toyota Prius. ...

Liberal politicians and overpaid executives seem to have exactly the same solution to all problems whether they be environmental, cultural, or scientific: Throw somebody elses's money at them. Isn't it obvious that the presently touted solutions to old problems may not be the correct ones? Isn't it...

The FCC seems determined to have Telecommunications Service providers increase backup power to the eight hours written in their regulations.  The courts have provided opportunities for the Telecommunications companies to delay enforcement and have eased the degree to which smaller service providers...

As James Carville might say to GM's Bob Lutz, "It's the battery, stupid, we don't have enough reliability and longevity data to put it on the market. That'll take at least five years after we finally choose a specific technology based in great part on initial reliability and longevity testing which...

Reuter's has now reported the official statement of a ranking official of China's Ministry of Economics, http://gateway.andohs.net/player/?sid=826&nid=2920 , to the effect that China's treasury must follow Chinese 'private' business and use its immense reserves of US dollars to obtain ownership...

Wind turbines can be used to produce electricity but in order to do so they must use permanent magnets and batteries. Building even the 'modest' 17 gigawatts  of wind power generated electricity that Texas alone projects would add so much demand for rare earth metals as to be impossible to...

Sanctioning Iran or Zimbabwe or any such nations is a bad approach to politics as well as economics. It is true as the writer says that the US efforts on sanctions are not coordinated, worse , these measures are never properly enforced and loopholes benefit a select few. More importantly, ecnomic sanctions,...

In order to maximize the range of a hybrid or all electric car it is important to minimize the drain on the battery from any load but that of the drive train.