President Obama is scheduled to deliver remarks in Michigan this afternoon touting the potential for battery technologies to jump-start the electric vehicle industry.
But The Washington Post has a nice story today that raises questions about the administration’s hopes for batteries.
The problem, however, is that the battery story
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