06-04-2010, 07:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Brutha  NIMH batteries sound great, there seem to be enough nickel.
Which patents are we talking about in particular and when will they run out? | Everything I know so far about the patents comes from ev1. org
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GM announced on Oct. 10, 2000 the sale of the worldwide patent rights for the NiMH batteries to Texaco. Six days later, on Oct. 16, 2000, even before the sale was consumated, Texaco announced its merger into Chevron, the successor to Standard Oil of California. The sale of the batteries was finally concluded on July 17, 2001, long after Texaco had become one with Chevron.
Chevron/Texaco received "...GM's 60 percent stake in [NiMH] batteries, and a 20 percent stake in ECD itself...", giving Chevron effective control of NiMH.
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