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Agreed. It would help awfully if the NiMH patent hadn't been bought up by Big Oil. That's a technology that could markedly extend the range of everything from the Volt to the homebrew cars.
That could actually start a new thread - - should there be a patent requirement that if one owns the patent, one must actually use, or demonstrate the intention to use, the technology contained within? That would prevent oil companies from locking competing technologies in a vault, but I'm sure there are drawbacks I'm not thinking of.
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