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• Company says its battery will change future of cars
  Mar 7, 2008 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Justin Hyde Detroit Free Press
  
  In a brick hall by the Charles River, where blacksmiths made cannons for the Union Army, a new breed of metalworker forges what may be the best weapon automakers will have for surviving the 21st Century.
  
  
• Xcel Energy Launches Groundbreaking Wind-to-Battery Project
  Feb 28, 2008 - Business Wire
  
  Xcel Energy soon will begin testing a cutting-edge technology to store wind energy in batteries. It will be the first use of the technology in the United States for direct wind energy storage.
  
  
• Study: Plug-in hybrids could reduce greenhouse gas emissions
  July 19, 2007 - Ken Thomas - Associated Press
  
  If motorists used rechargeable "plug-in" hybrid-electric vehicles in large numbers, the U.S. could see a significant drop in greenhouse gas emissions by the middle of the century, says a study released Thursday.
  
  
• Ford and Southern California Edison Partner on PHEV Research
  July 13, 2007 - Clean Edge News
  
  Ford and Southern California Edison are combining resources to explore ways to make plug-in hybrid (PHEV) vehicles more accessible to consumers, reduce petroleum-related emissions and improve the cost-effectiveness of the nation's electricity grid.
  
  http://www.cleanedge.com/story.php?nID=4822
  
  
• New battery packs powerful punch
  July 5, 2007 - Paul Davidson -USA TODAY
  
  Batteries have long been vital to laptops and cellphones. They are increasingly supplying electricity to an unlikely recipient: the power grid itself. Until recently, large amounts of electricity could not be efficiently stored. Thus, when you turn on the living-room light, power is instantly drawn from a generator. A new type of a room-size battery, however, may be poised to store energy for the nation's vast electric grid almost as easily as a reservoir stockpiles water, transforming the way power is delivered to homes and businesses.
  
  http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/environment/2007-07-04-sodium-battery_N.htm
  
  

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