Re: [FLEAA] NiMH Patents

2008-04-29 Thread Joseph T.
harles Whalen > > > - Original Message - > From: "Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'Charles Whalen'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'FLEAA Mailing List'" > > Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 12:07 AM > Subject: RE: [FLE

Re: [FLEAA] NiMH Patents

2008-04-24 Thread Charles Whalen
- Original Message - From: "Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Charles Whalen'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'FLEAA Mailing List'" Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 12:07 AM Subject: RE: [FLEAA] NiMH Patents Charles, OK, now I'm confused.

Re: [FLEAA] NiMH Patents

2008-04-24 Thread Andrew
: Thursday, April 24, 2008 11:27 PM To: FLEAA Mailing List; Joseph T. Subject: Re: [FLEAA] NiMH Patents Hi Joseph, Having been around the EV community and industry for quite some time, I have a pretty good idea who that person is. There is principally one person, quite well-known in fact, in the EV

Re: [FLEAA] NiMH Patents

2008-04-24 Thread Charles Whalen
has been an important and likely even a dominant factor. In that sense, I think you and I are in agreement on that. Charles Whalen - Original Message - From: "Joseph T. " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Charles Whalen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "FLEAA Mailing Li

Re: [FLEAA] NiMH Patents

2008-04-24 Thread Joseph T.
10-15 year / 200,000 mile > battery life, but it cannot be done on the cheap. It would definitely be > a very high-budget conversion or kitcar EV. > > Charles Whalen > > > - Original Message - > From: "Charles Whalen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <

Re: [FLEAA] NiMH Patents

2008-04-24 Thread Charles Whalen
n" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "FLEAA Mailing List" Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 5:25 PM Subject: Re: [FLEAA] NiMH Patents The only place we can get them is from GoldPeak. I know and speak with GoldPeak's Chairman and have had an intensive series

Re: [FLEAA] NiMH Patents

2008-04-24 Thread Charles Whalen
ROTECTED]>; "FLEAA Mailing List" Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 4:48 PM Subject: Re: [FLEAA] NiMH Patents Thanks for the grat info. So where can we get NiMH batteries for a conversion? Is there anything? I tried today all day w/saft and left messages before reading your email. They do have

Re: [FLEAA] NiMH Patents

2008-04-24 Thread donut_o
: "Charles Whalen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:51:27 To:"Florida EAA" Subject: Re: [FLEAA] NiMH Patents Hi Joseph, Your understanding is not quite correct. GoldPeak has an unrestricted, permissive Ovonics license from 1991 that allows it to sell large-fo

Re: [FLEAA] NiMH Patents

2008-04-24 Thread Charles Whalen
27;s NiMH patents expire on December 31, 2014. Best regards, Charles Whalen Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:38:06 -0400 From: "Joseph T. " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [FLEAA] NiMH Patents To: listserv@floridaeaa.org Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; cha

[FLEAA] NiMH Patents

2008-04-23 Thread Joseph T.
As I understand, Chevron's patent control over large-format NiMH batteries means that no other company but them can produce such batteries. However, why does Saft sell high-capacity (100 Ah+) NiMH batteries? http://www.saftbatteries.com/130-Catalogue/PDF/NHE_en.pdf The pdf is dated July 2005. I'v