And you get a ton of stories about not enough batteries, but apparently another battery factory will get going next year, and advanced factories the year or two after that.

Have you followed the recent hostile takeover bid in the platinum markets.

Someone wants to bet big on fuel cells.

Plugin hybrids take mire than a few times the batteries of a regiular hybrid like the Prius.  And they generally use lithium ion batteries instead of the NiMH prius batteries.

I wonder how mass production and capital investment is coming along with Lithium batteries?  How about patent disputes and patents purposely held off the market by oil companies to delay plugin hybrids?

This whole area is very dark in terms of media coverage.  Too bad Seymour Hersh is busy investigating oil war related topics.  Only he could get the real story.  Is there an investigative reporter out there of his caliber to look into this?

Find one Grist! Without information it is very hard to know what to tell candidates running for office about what and where reform is needed.

We need batteries for plugin hybrids, yesterday!  

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin