Hi All! I drive a 2002 Toyota Rav4-EV. Yes, the one with 24 NiHM Panasonic EV-95 batteries! Patents by Cobasys, Ovonics, Texaco, Chevron, BASF,
The pack has pushed 131 thousand miles over 13 years. It has dropped to around 65% original capacity. Power is similarly limited. Last year I searched extensively for replacements but discovered they are illegal. (See 'Who Killed the Electric Car' for details if you don't know already.) * But I also read again and again that **the patents were due to expire* *in 2013 and 2014!* Can anyone here comment on the current patent status for large format NiMH batteries? Will Gold Peak manufacture GP100EVHs? Nilar? EVBTech.com? Panasonic? Sanyo? Is there any reason to hope? -David Miller -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150609/bbeb0a57/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
