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The biggest challenge for electric cars is energy storage: Batteries are better than ever, but they are still expensive, slow to charge and have fairly limited life spans. The solution may be ultracapacitors, which hold less energy than batteries (at least as the technology currently stands) but have virtually none of their drawbacks. That means longer life spans, no messy chemical reactions, no issues with battery memory and far greater durability.
Voting bells rang again at 5:53 pm Wednesday. The bells signaled what lawmakers hoped was the last series of votes for the year. The first vote was another Call of the House, followed by final passage on the jobs package. Pelosi, Hoyer and Clyburn planned to tie a pretty, red bow around their package of 2009 legislative achievements: a much-criticized stimulus bill, a controversial climate measure and health care reform. And the bow was the jobs bill. Just before Christmas.
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