The Truth About Toyota’s New Magnesium Battery As always, context is important By Seth Fletcher | Published Jan 19, 2011 2:44 AM EST Technology SHARE Before the average electric car can travel 500 highway miles on a single charge, we’ll need better batteries than the lithium-ion packs used today. Last week, when Toyota told the press that it was working on a magnesium-based electric-car battery th
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