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Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. (KHI) will begin manufacturing versions of the Gigacell bipolar NiMH industrial battery—originally targeted for grid applications such as output smoothing for wind and solar—for transportation applications, beginning with systems for rail applications, according to a report in the Nikkei.
Two years ago, the Economist asked if Ovshinsky wasn’t the Edison of our age.
Ovshinsky holds patents on NiMH batteries, those ubiquitous rechargeable cells. His solar cells powered the MIR space station and, as you’ll hear in the interview, he created a battery for the GM EV1 that had a range of 200 miles.
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