Google Invests in Green - Aptera Motors and Lithium-Ion Battery Maker AtaCell
newsvine.com     Jul 27, 2008          

News Type: Event — Seeded on Sun Jul 27, 2008 1:26 AM EDT Google's philanthropic arm, via its RechargeIT program, has just bet $2.75 million on two companies trying to make plug-in hybrids and electric cars a reality: Aptera Motors, maker of the three-wheeled two-seater Typ-1 (we wrote about their prototype here), and ActaCell, a spinoff from the University of Texas at Austin that is working on lithium-ion battery technology with "substantially longer cycle life at low cost while maintaining... [read full story]                    


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