First Electric Car Runs Well in China

This is the first of its kind made in China with power supply from a group of fully charged high-energy airtight nickel hydrogen batteries. The car has by its running over a distance of 225km round trip from Beijing to Tianjin turned out a complete success. This shows that China has by its nickel hydrogen battery manufacture technology been placed at a level matching the world advanced.

Beijing Nonferrous Metal Research Institute has been credited with the research and manufacture of the group of high-energy airtight nickel hydrogen batteries said above. A thing to be noted is that the institute has succeeded in making many key technological breakthroughs as of functional consistence, safety of batteries and computer control used on the batteries.

Nickel hydrogen battery is a new ideal type of high-energy batteries for power supply of cars developed in recent years. Many transnational companies have heavily invested to that end. China has likewise not been excluded from the like effort and this is as shown by its plan for development of nickel hydrogen batteries to have been included in the country's "836" program. In 1996, Beijing Nonferrous Metal Research Institute, based on technological achievements from a state high-tech project, successfully manufactured the first batch of nickel hydrogen batteries specially used on the car.

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