New manufacturing processes and new ideas for lead-acid battery construction are emerging. With the hybrid market just opening up, now's the time to start investing in lead-acid again, argues Mike Weighall.
New Hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) are taking off. JD Power Associates is predicting that there will be 38 models in the USA by 2011. JD Power also believes that the number of HEVs will peak at about 535,000 or 3% of the US market. Beyond that, further increase in demand will be limited by the higher cost of HEVs compared with conventional . . .
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