Lithium’s role in President Obama’s Clean Energy Program

The Financial Sense University reports how lithium plays a major role in President Obama’s Clean Energy Program:

“Today, we have the chance to achieve a real breakthrough: the plug-in hybrid…Hybrid engines save gasoline by switching back and forth from battery to gasoline power……With a plug-in hybrid, commuters can drive back and forth to work, recharge their cars overnight, and go a month or more without a trip to the gas station.” White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.

To achieve this breakthrough the US is going to need batteries that are cheaper, more durable and more powerful then the current nickel-metal-hydride (NiMh) batteries. Because of groundbreaking research there’s already an answer being voiced, lithium-ion. With double the “energy density” of today’s standard NiMh batteries lithium-ion cells have emerged as the leading battery technology to power hybrid vehicles.

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