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The lithium-ion battery industry has not yet found a solution to the internal short circuit. So are lithium-ion batteries safe? The Editor attended Knowledge Foundation's battery safety conference in Las Vegas. He's a worried man.

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Foundation's Fall lithium‑ion battery safety conference, held in Las Vegas last November, was going to be, given the fact that news was just beginning to leak out that the much hyped Chevy Volt being tested by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration had decided to . . .