Other - Tue 7 Oct 2008
M'bishi Motors president vows to take lead in EV market
Mitsubishi Motors Corp. President Osamu Masuko vowed Monday to take the lead in the potentially huge electric vehicle or EV market ahead of the launch next summer of the iMiEV car powered by a lithium ion battery. ''I believe we are ahead of the rest of others in terms of lithium ion batteries (for electric vehicles),'' he told reporters at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan.Views: 21
3 Europeans receive Nobel Prize for discovering HIV, papilloma virus
Luc Montagnier and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi of France received the Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine for their discovery of HIV, while Harald zur Hausen of Germany was also awarded the prize for the discovery of the human papilloma virus that causes cervical cancer, Sweden's Karolinska Institute said Monday. ''This year's Nobel Prize awards discoveries of two viruses causing severe human diseases,'' the institute said in a summary of the awarding.Views: 16
