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Silver Polymer Batteries

Are we past the tipping point on electric vehicle use? According to MSNBC.com, there will be 10 electric cars available for purchase in the U.S. in 2011.

Here’s the list:

• Nissan Leaf $32k
• Chevrolet Volt $41k
• Ford Focus Electric n/a
• Ford Transit Connect n/a
• Mitsubishi I-MiEV $30k
• Honda Fit EV n/a
• Tesla Roadster n/a
• Fisher Karma n/a
• Think n/a
• GEM $7.5k

So, there is a performance issue challenge that all electronic vehicles have in common:

Weight, size, and storage capacity of batteries. You cannot have an electronic vehicle without them. A major focus of manufacturers and scientists will be how to improve battery performance.

Hello Silver Polymer Batteries. Here’s an overview thanks to peswiki.com:
“The Silver Polymer Battery utilizes divalent silver oxide to achieve very high energy and power, yielding up to twice the energy and volume of current lithium ion and lithium polymer batteries.”
“The Silver Polymer Battery has the following advantages:

• Up to 10x the energe to weight ratio of current lead acid and up to 4x energy to weight ratio of NiMH.
• No memory and low self discharge
• Tunable price/performance from low cost to maximum performance preference.
• Dramatically safer than large lithium batteries which are now subject to severe transportation limitations.

I think if one simply does the math. 10 new battery dependent automobiles on the U.S. market. That’s a big deal. What’s around the corner? Are we at the tipping point to bring electronic vehicles into mainstream use? Maybe so… And if that’s the case, then it is safe to assume that we will want better [battery] performance. Silver Polymer Batteries may be the next step. If so, the near $30 per ounce price we’re seeing may just be the tipping point as well, or maybe the tip of the iceberg as far as what silver valuation is and could be in even a small scale conversion from petro burning vehicles.

Pete Skenandore