Show Charged Power Aside from its immedi ate the energy crisis brought to the fore a number of important Spurred by the oil embargo and skyrocketing petroleum energy authorities began at once to seek alternative sources of IN the government advocated a new project targeted at bringing the United States into an era of total energy This program of have to be a longer-term Near petroleum-derived energy must still take care of the bulk of our albeit on a cost basis vastly increased over former IN THE immense field of we like at this time focus on just one i.e. charged power in the form of many of which are storage Greatest use of batteries in terms of numbers is certainly In the automotive With an estimated and trucks on the replacement requirements absorb by far the BUT THERE is a growing variety of uses for stored power besides Witness the quickening expansion in the marketplace of cordless Employing batteries for today are such widely different items as newer type heart garden electronic golf and other recreation IN A GREAT many instances these batteries are The industry is pushing steadily to increase its market share in large electric-stored power appliances by encouraging sales of riding lawn mowers and garden battery-operated industrial and even small battery-driven vehicles for outside Although research and development work has been going on for some time on the electric the former competitive edge of petroleum has held back widespread use of But the current soaring costs of petroleum products gives some fresh Impetus to-battery SEVERAL factors augur well for the continued growth and profitability of the battery Increased electrical demands of today's less restrictive government pricing speed-up in the proliferation of cordless The advantage of batteries versus gasoline insofar as air pollution is increases In battery which should help to offset the steadily advancing manufacturing and higher profit margins for replacement which for the bulk of WITH MODERN-day or battery manufacturers have been adding items and materials to their product for the new titanium This is smaller and lighter-weight than conventional thus permitting greater flexibility in packaging and In some of the recent models are less expensive than the nickel cadmium battery makers now tend toward various non-battery Thus when considering an investment in this each company should be judged on its merits in terms of comparative At the Research Department of Babson's Reports is of the opinion that the prices of most stocks in this field are reflecting a number of unfavorable THEY are being influenced by a decrease in the demand for original-equipment batteries because of a substantially lower level of new car and truck profit margin and the mounting expense of borrowing money Babson's recommend the purchase of the common stock of for its capital appreciation Those interested may have a free copy of a report on this company by writing Babson's Reports Wellesley |