The clear advantages that any lead-acid battery offers over batteries based on alternative chemistries include:
The one factor that prevented the consideration of a lead-acid solution for the price problem of current hybrids was that, until very recently, the lead-acid battery could not cope with the high-rate-partial-state-of-charge (HRPSoC) duty that is required in hybrids.
Now, however, a simple modification involving the incorporation of certain forms of carbon in the negative plate has resulted in a revolution in the HRPSoC performance of lead-acid batteries.
Lead/acid/carbon batteries are able to do all that is required of a battery in a power-assist hybrid and this is being confirmed in a series of vehicle demonstration projects that are being managed by the Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium (ALABC)…
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The Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety (IFCS) – a discussion forum for governments, intergovernmental organisations and NGOs, which operates under the World Health Organisation (WHO) … Continue Reading