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HMM: Report: Nissan Leaf battery pack costs only £6,000 ($9,000) or $375/kWh! ?If a report in the?

By Glenn Reynolds

HMM: Report: Nissan Leaf battery pack costs only £6,000 ($9,000) or $375/kWh! “If a report in the Times of London is accurate, it would go a long way toward explaining Nissan’s claims that the Leaf electric car will be profitable at just $33,000. The report, which focuses mainly on Nissan executive Andy Palmer, states that the 24 kilowatt-hour lithium ion battery pack for the EV costs only £6,000 (about $9,000) to produce. That works out to just $375 per kWh, a figure that no one else in the industry is currently claiming is possible.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on May 06, 2010 (boomark / email).