Nissan Has Breakthrough Lithium Ion Battery Technology

There has been a long debate between electric car enthusiasts and hydrogen car enthusiasts as to which is better (tastes great or less filling). The electric car advocates what to plug in and stick it to the fuel companies. The hydrogen car advocates what to fuel up and stick it to the utility companies.

They both want to stick it to the phone companies but that’s different subject altogether. So, let’s get back on track and talk about Nissan for a second. They just put the word out on the street (whisper, whisper) that they have developed breakthrough technology for their lithium ion batteries. They have found a way to make them flat and fit under the floorboard rather than cylindrical and mount them like a deer on your front bumper.

According a guy named Nielson who is questionably part of that ratings family, “We have had a breakthrough in the technology allowing Nissan’s lithium ion battery to be put into mass production. We’ve had the size of the battery reduced and made more compact and also made it more powerful half the size of the previous generation.”

Now this is good news for electric car advocates and ironically hydrogen car advocates as well. You see most hydrogen cars are actually hybrid electric cars as well and a few are even plug-in hybrids.

Future Prediction

My future prediction is that the plug-in hybrid electric hydrogen vehicle will win the battle between battery electric vehicle advocates and hydrogen car advocates. Combining the best of both technologies, battery only for short drives and hydrogen fuel cells for longer drives gives drivers what they need (and I’m not talking golfers here, though I could be).

Before nuclear cars take over the landscape the future cars will be hydrogen plug-in hybrids on the road. Mark your calendars for “sometime in the future” so that you can look back in time a few years from now and say to yourself that hey this guy was right. Might want to give him a Nostradamus award or something.