Comments on: Vinod Khosla On Why Lithium-ion Batteries Are Overhyped

By: Vinod Khosla: Internal Combustion Innovation Can Improve Mileage 30 to 50%

Vinod Khosla: Internal Combustion Innovation Can Improve Mileage 30 to 50% — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:01:49 +0000

[...] battery game entirely. His firm has also invested in battery startups Sakti3 and Seeo because, as Khosla told us last summer, the “lithium-ion markets are here today. We’re investing because there are good markets.” [...]

By: Surprise: Electric Cars Not Actually Zero-Emission

Surprise: Electric Cars Not Actually Zero-Emission — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:43:15 +0000

[...] Cleantech venture capitalist Vinod Khosla raised a related point earlier this year in a talk at the AlwaysOn Summit. For years to come, he said, electric vehicles in the U.S., China and India will be “plugging into a lump of coal.“ [...]

By: Battery Startup Seeo Raises $8.6M, With Khosla Back for More « Energy Portfolio Managers Blog

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:32:40 +0000

[...] Valley’s biggest cleantech backers and the founder of Sun Microsystems, may be keeping an eye on the hype about lithium-ion batteries, but the venture capitalist is still excited about one of his earlier lithium battery plays: Seeo. [...]

By: Henry Gibson

Henry Gibson — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:26:37 +0000

The ZEBRA battery can outperform many if not most lithium batteries for automobiles. Lead batteries have been proven to be adequate for plug in hybrids, and this was before the Firefly battery. EFFPOWER has a lead battery for high power for straight hybrids. ..HG..

By: Dave Bradshaw

Dave Bradshaw — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:32:27 +0000

By the time there are significant numbers of plugins on the road there could be large numbers of the hybrids running on E85(85 % ethanol) which reduce the co2 on the ICE side of the equation significantly.
Electricity from the coal plant would experience losses before reaching the car motor (including grid distribution losses, losses in charging/discharging of the battery, etc.). I’ve seen fast battery chargers with less than 50% efficientcy.
Also the plug-in hybrid must drag around the weight of the larger batteries, which the normal hybrid does not require.

By: Battery Startup Seeo Raises $8.6M, With Khosla Back for More

Battery Startup Seeo Raises $8.6M, With Khosla Back for More — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:59:50 +0000

[...] Valley’s biggest cleantech backers and the founder of Sun Microsystems may be keeping an eye on the hype about lithium-ion batteries, but the venture capitalist is still excited about one of his earlier lithium battery plays: Seeo. [...]

By: For Next-Gen Batteries Look to Universities — and the Rare Startup

For Next-Gen Batteries Look to Universities — and the Rare Startup — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:19:52 +0000

[...] lithium-ion batteries. Investors have certainly been concentrating on what will come next, and Vinod Khosla recently went so far as to call lithium-ion a tech that has been “overhyped,” and will “possibly be [...]

By: owlafaye

owlafaye — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:01:52 +0000

Clean electricity (nuclear, wind, solar, hydro) and dirty electricity (coal) produce, lets say, 100 units of electricity each year. Using clean electricity to charge your car simply means that that unit you would have used from a dirty source is being used by another consumer...there are still 100 units being used a year.

I like all the foolishness surrounding this...pure hilarity. Keep it up: Laughing is good for the planet.

By: Transcripts : Vinod Khosla's Stance on the Future of Lithium-ion Batteries

Transcripts : Vinod Khosla's Stance on the Future of Lithium-ion Batteries — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:17:23 +0000

[...] by "blog chatter" about an article in Earth2Tech where he was quoted as saying that lithium-ion batteries are overhyped. Since my article "Why Lead-Carbon Batteries Will Deflate the Li-ion Bubble" was [...]

By: Rex Tillerson : Vinod Khosla's Stance on the Future of Lithium-ion Batteries

Rex Tillerson : Vinod Khosla's Stance on the Future of Lithium-ion Batteries — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:15:22 +0000