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  2. History of the battery - Wikipedia

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    It produced a lot more hydrogen gas when being charged, meaning it could not be sealed, and the charging process was less efficient (it was, however, cheaper). Seeing a way to make a profit in the already competitive lead-acid battery market, Thomas Edison worked in the 1890s on developing an alkaline based battery that he could get a patent on ...

  3. Gas lighting - Wikipedia

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    Gas lighting in the historical center of Wrocław, Poland, is manually turned off and on daily.. Gas lighting is the production of artificial light from combustion of a fuel gas such as methane, propane, butane, acetylene, ethylene, hydrogen, carbon monoxide, coal gas (town gas) or natural gas.

  4. Lamplighter - Wikipedia

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    However, the high cost of natural gas lighting [11] at least partly explains why a large number of older gas lamps have been converted to electricity. Solar-rechargeable battery-powered gas light controllers can be easily retrofitted into existing gas lamps to keep the lights off during daylight hours and cut energy consumption and green-house ...

  5. History of the lithium-ion battery - Wikipedia

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    2008: The launch of Tesla Roadster- the first highway legal, serial production, all-electric car to use lithium-ion battery cells, and the first production all-electric car to travel more than 244 miles (393 km) per charge- ushered a new era in the history of Li-ion batteries, which is signified as inflection points in the plots "The log number ...

  6. Gas Prices: The Cost of Gas the Year You Were Born - AOL

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    Keep reading to learn the cost of gas the year you were born. Everett / Shutterstock.com. 1929. Price of a gallon of gas: $0.21. In 2022 dollars: $3.53. Library of Congress. 1930.

  7. How Much Does It Cost To Charge an Electric Car? - AOL

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    Cost to Charge = (360 / 3) x $0.14 The math in the formula shows that this particular electric vehicle costs $16.80 to charge at home. Charging Your Electric Car With a Commercial Charger

  8. Rising Gas Prices: The True Cost of Going Electric - AOL

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    On average, it costs half as much to drive an electric vehicle, according to the U.S. Department of Energy -- and that's presuming a cost of $2.85 per gallon. But with gas prices now averaging ...

  9. Nickel–iron battery - Wikipedia

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    Rates up to three times normal charge rate (defined as C, the current equal to the nominal capacity of the battery divided by 1 hour) can be employed for periods of 30 minutes. [18] Fully charging a NiFe cell consists of seven hours at the normal cell rate. In service the amount of charge given is governed by the extent of the previous discharge.