On 4/21/22 14:43, EV List Lackey via EV wrote:
On 21 Apr 2022 at 14:15, Willie via EV wrote:
I would hope than (->that) most here are familiar with how GM caused NiMH to not
be available for EV use until lithium chemistries matured.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_encumbrance_of_large_automotive_NiMH_bat
teries
Here, the above URL needs some reassembly. Googling on "nimh patent
encumbrances" should do it.
Incidentally, the Leaf section was added only in the past few years and
is "impactful", as the talking heads like to say.
GM's corporate trickery - partly enabled by Stanford Ovshinsky's stunning
level of (claimed) naivete - set EV development back at least 15 years.
He does deserve some small amount of the blame. But, consider the
situation:
1) This was before GM made their reputation with the EV1 and NiMH.
2) In his WKTEC interviews, he seemed a little befuddled and used his
wife as a "minder". He died only about six years later. Sadly, before
he was able to publicly address the question: "What do you think about
what GM did to NiMH?".
3) He had struggled getting NiMH accepted. Then, apparently hit the
jackpot with GM. He expected GM to use in EVs and popularize. Perhaps
spend more on development than Stan was able. That was his goal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_R._Ovshinsky
I think "trickery" is far too gentle a word to describe GM. Immoral.
Dishonest. Other terms solicited.
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