Article: Electric vehicle battery research. (lead-acid batteries for electric vehicles)

The European members of the Advanced Lead-Acid Battery Consortium have been awarded a contract under the Brite-Euram II programme of the European Union for research into lead-acid batteries for electric vehicles. The project entitled 'The development of improved lead-acid batteries for electric vehicle service which are maintenance-free and fully recyclable' is scheduled to last four years and has a total budget of about 4 MECU (|pounds~3 million). Work on the project started this January and involves 19 organisations in four European Member States. The research work will seek to improve on the currently achievable capacity and cycle life of the maintenance-free type of ...

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