    I. Expert Panel -- How to Make Batteries Safer        On the
other hand, replacing batteries also isn't cheap.  II. Battery
Fires Hit Boeing, GM, Hard     Boeing 787 production line [Image
Source: Boeing]    Chevrolet Volt [Source: TECHVEHI]   III. Soft
Demand Tempts Some to Cut Corners     Battery product [Image
Source: ANL]   Many companies have gone out of business.
Sources: NTSB, Reuters  Comments     Threshold   RE:
Manufacturing By Motoman on 4/12/2013 6:47:07 PM , Rating: 3 I
don't think anybody's "ignoring" anything.  The problem is
trying to make a battery pack provide the highest performance
within the smallest volume of area. If you wanted "perfect"
batteries that you could guarantee 100% that they would never
fail, they'd probably be twice the size and half the power. If
you wanted maximum power and density, all else be damned, you
could probably make the batteries be even smaller and provide
even more performance - but they'd blow up all the time.  These
manufacturers have to dance a delica