Patent Law

It's the battery, stupid!

By Lawrence B. Ebert, Esq.

China says it plans to become the leading producer of hybrid and all electric vehicles. That's not good news for General Motors which aims to dig its way out of a hole by going more heavily into electric vehicles such as the plug-in Volt. The weak link in everybody's plan is the batteries.

This "headline" could have been "ripped" from IPBiz in 2007:

IPBiz recalls that Thomas Edison was going to solve the "battery problem" long, long ago. It didn't happen. Now, GM proposes an electric car without the needed battery. Where's the beef?

See

San Jose Mercury News on electric cars

http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/2009/02/automobile-not-invented-in-america-but.html

Bob Park's comment derives from Thomas Edison 100 years ago. Nothing significant here. The problem exists and no one mentions it; indeed "what's new"?

Full post as published by IPBiz on April 05, 2009 (boomark / email).