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First hybrid sports boat to be manufactured and sold is the Epic 23E Wake Boat. See ABSL Space Products has delivered its first Li-ion battery hardware built in Longmont, Colorado. This is a major milestone as ABSL has now demonstrated end-to-end Li-ion battery expertise by designing, building and testing hardware entirely on American soil. The Colorado team is actively working seven separate space battery contracts using four different Li-ion space cells. The current customer list comprises several NASA field sites as well as U.S. prime and subsystem manufacturers. The contract was awarded by Moog Inc., for whom ABSL must deliver multiple 340V batteries. These high voltage systems will be used to power a prototype for a future human-rated launch vehicle. For this program, hardware consists of multi-module battery systems employing cutting edge high power Li-ion cell technology. The first batch of batteries has now been dispatched; ABSL was able to deliver them in less than three months from contract award due to high voltage expertise established on other space battery programs, such as the MARES battery which will be the first high voltage Li-ion battery to fly on the International Space Station. Exide Technologies plans to invest about $7 million to expand operations at its lead-acid battery manufacturing plant in Kansas City, Kansas. The company, based in Alpharetta, Georgia, produces and recycles lead-acid batteries and operates in more than 80 countries. The expansion will include upgrades to plant facilities and installation of a tubular plate manufacturing line to make lift truck batteries. Plans include multiple phases and are scheduled to be completed in the second half of the year, says Mitch Bregman, Exide's president of