Affirmative, I should have said Firefly instead of fly. According to their website their initial product will be for the Husquarvna folks due out sometime in late 2007.
When you read the firefly folks web pages you get the impression this stuff is right around the corner, coming soon to a theater near you but in reality it is probably a long way off. Toyota has dumped their plans for a LiPO4 hybrid for at least four more years due to problems within the battery chemistry that can cause things like fires and explosions. Neither of these things are considered good when you're driving your car and would probably hurt sales should they happen.
Firefly won't experience, I don't think, these type of problems. It seems most of the developmental issues have (only in my opinion) been based on royalties for Caterpillar first and manufacturing second with product liability a distant third.
In a way I hope my interest in ebikes/evehicles holds for a few more years so I can see what develops in the battery industry. Perhaps by the time my yet to arrive LiPO4's wear out something new will be either on the horizon or maybe even in place. For today and for the next six weeks or so it'll be SLA pushing this guy around.
On a brief side note: My country club has two golf courses. Each course has 144 electric golf carts and each cart is powered by six, six volt lead acid batteries. That is 1,728 big ass heavy lead ass batteries which require substantial recycling efforts. My club has TWO courses, there are another 10 or more in a fifteen mile driving radius and probably about a gazillion in the state. They even have golf courses in Canada! Of course they probably only get about six weeks of play (between snows) but they still have them.
Think about the savings to the environment is this antiquated technology could be replaced.
Mike