From a blog associated with GM, showing that GM only talks to those who know nothing about
EVs (so they can bullshit them).
Note, everything they say about batteries is wrong, they are just making things up to snow people. Lithium, famously,
is best for performance cars like the t-0 and Tesla, NiMH won't work for high power. NiMH is best for low-power
long-range vehicles like the RAV4-EV, HondaEV, Ranger-EV and all hybrids.
Nickel is not a scarce metal!! It's mostly used in stainless steel, monel and for high-corrosive environments.
Mostly, its recycled, but it is found often in copper mines and other large supplies.
GM thus shows that when presented with naive, well-meaning folks, they feel they can make up all the lies they
need to con them:
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gm-volt BLOG
"They [GM] talked about NiMH versus lithium. For example, the Volt is using the same
battery design, a T, that was used in the EV1 for the Volt, but the lithium pack is much smaller and lighter.
[NOTE: FIRST LIE. For the VOLT, the 16 kWh (kilo-watt-hours,
energy) of Lithium can only yield 8 kWh, or 40 miles range. The lead-acid EV1 had 18 kWh, all of which were accessible,
and the NiMH had 26 kWh, all of which were accessible, in its 1000 lb. battery pack. Thus, per unit weight, NiMH
actually has MORE useable energy than Lithium! (8 kWh/400lbs. for Lithium, 26 kWh/1000 lbs. for NiMH, or, if the
VOLT used NiMH, it would have 12 kWh for 400 lbs., 50% more range than Lithium. Even more important, NiMH lasts
much longer than Lithium; the 100-mile-range Toyota RAV4-EV, last sold in 2002, is still running on the same NiMH
battery pack )
"The NiMH pack being used in the Volt mule - it has a Malibu body right now - only
provides about 1 mile of electric range, but it enabled GM to test out much of the rest of the E Flex drive.
[NOTE: GM is unable to rely on Lithium, even for
1 miles range! Yet the Tesla, using Lithium, has 200 miles range, although the battery only lasts for 50,000 miles
and costs a lot more than NiMH. So why think Lithium is better??]
"One of their battery experts also stated that NiMH batteries weren't feasible for a range extended plug-in
vehicle like the Volt.
[NOTE: SECOND LIE. Actually the Toyota RAV4-EV is
a plug-in vehicle that could be converted to an EREV just by adding a genset; any EV with a genset is an EREV]
"NiMH is a power battery, unlike lithium which offers power and energy. This offers a wider state of charge
and deeper cycling - more flexibility - for the battery intensive Volt.
[NOTE: THIRD LIE. Actually, the Toyota RAV4-EV uses
the NiMH as an energy battery, as any "expert" well knows; you use Lithium for performance vehicles, such as
the Tesla, which need power batteries!! So GM either lies, or has false "experts".]
"NiMH would work better on a Prius plug-in, for example. Still, because lithium retains energy better than
NiHM, it offers more potential for any battery powered vehicle.
[NOTE: Actually, Toyota uses the NiMH for its hybrids,
and for its plug-in Prius; it's easy to make a NiMH vehicle into a plug-in, but more difficult to use Lithium].
"Also, in terms of mass-production, NiMH has materials issues, so if millions of NiMH vehicles started being
produced each year, competition for materials would quickly elevate battery costs. On the other hand, according
to A123, America's entire fleet of automobiles could be converted into lithium vehicles without any materials shortages.
Ultimately, economies of scale significantly favor lithium in the long term.
[NOTE: FOURTH LIE. Actually, NiMH is one of the
most important, and common, industrial metals; almost all of it is recycled, it occurs in conjunction with copper,
is used in stainless steel, monel, and for corrosive environments. There is more chance of a shortage of Lithium
than Nickel! But even more of a lie, why is GM raising the prospect of "millions of EVs" when there are
NONE for sale by GM?? Isn't this just a frivolous objection, one that is designed to con the gullible?]
"GM did give props to the EV1, which GM claimed provided the necessary knowledge to develop the dual mode
hybrid powertrain, and the dual mode powertrain led to the foundation of the E Flex drive."
[NOTE: FIFTH LIE. Actually, the "dual mode" has
nothing to do with the EV1!! The "dual mode" was developed in conjunction with Benz, it uses the very
small electric motor as a boost to the mechanical transmission, and is designed so that it can't be made or modified
into a pure EV like the EV1. How do they make up stuff like this?? It's almost funny.]
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