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ExxonMobil Pushes Electric Vehicles

by Marc S. Reisch
June 29, 2009 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 87, Issue 26

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Credit: Electrovaya
ExxonMobil polymer separator films enable Electrovaya's electric-car battery.
Credit: Electrovaya
ExxonMobil polymer separator films enable Electrovaya's electric-car battery.

ExxonMobil Chemical is helping to underwrite an electric-car-sharing and rental program, called AltCar, in Baltimore. ExxonMobil's Japanese affiliate, TonenGeneral, makes the polymer battery separator films used in the lithium-ion batteries that power the electric car, which has a range of up to 120 miles on a single charge. Both the car, a four-passenger subcompact called the Maya 300, and the batteries are made by Canada-based Electrovaya.

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