05-12-2008, 06:50 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-12-2008, 10:32 AM by Peter Lemkin.)
Keith Millea Wrote:When I viewed "Who Killed the Electric Car",they mentioned that it was the invention of the special battery that really made the electric vehicle viable.This was a private inventor not GM that had the patent.Now,as I was watching "Democracy Now" about a week ago,during an interview with(I forget),their was a quip that Exxon-Mobil had bought up the battery patent back when GM decided to scrap the vehicle.Makes me wonder if the batteries that we use today are of the same design,or are something different.
Keith
I'm not sure that Exxon bought the patent, but if they did they bought it to 'bury it'. Much the way GM purchased the lightrail transit system in L.A. after the War and then tore it up and melted it down - so persons in L.A. would have to purchase their cars. I could cite many other examples of big corporations buying-up patents and 'things' in order to destroy them or make them only for their benefit. The batteries that man in the film designed for the EV-1 were VERY special and unique - nothing like the Neaderthal Pb batteries used in cars today!....