Back to the battery tech future

Jarret Skorup uncovers a doozie of a deja vu quote from a Detroit Free Press story published in 1967:

Companies are searching for a billion-dollar breakthrough in battery design. General Dynamics is working on a zinc-air cell battery. Ford is actively interested in a sodium-sulfur cell. Gulton Industries and General Motors are tinkering with lithium…All the activity is bound to pay off probably within the next five years.

Ford and the future

Ford today announced 19 launch markets for the 2012 Focus Electric. Auto aficionado Jay Leno test drove the car, which will be built at Ford's Michigan Assembly Plant, and said "this I think is the future."