Green Options » NiZn http://greenoptions.com/tag/nizn Posts tagged 'NiZn' Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:45:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Affordable, Powerful Electric Scooters Coming Soon http://cleantechnica.com/2008/09/02/affordable-powerful-electric-scooters-coming-soon/ http://cleantechnica.com/2008/09/02/affordable-powerful-electric-scooters-coming-soon/#comments Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:45:05 +0000 Ariel Schwartz http://cleantechnica.com/2008/09/02/affordable-powerful-electric-scooters-coming-soon/ scooter

VentureBeat reports that PowerGenix has developed a nickel zinc (NiZn) battery that has 35 percent higher power and energy density than a nickel metal hydride (NiMH) battery (used in hybrid vehicles), but is half the cost of a lithium-ion battery.

This is great news for scooter fanatics, who right now are forced to choose between cheap scooters with lead-acid batteries and expensive scooters with powerful lithium-ion batteries.

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