A123 Is Proof Some Companies Go Public Too Soon

By Sammy Pollack:Shares of lithium-ion battery maker A123 Systems Inc (AONE) surged higher Tuesday following news that the company has broken through with its efforts to create a battery capable of operating in extreme heat and cold. Click to enlarge.

John Petersen submits:Last week Energy Secretary Steven Chu addressed the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun. After watching the video presentation several times, I can't help but wonder whether the Secretary didn't politely caution his audience that lithium-ion batteries are a dead-end electric drive technology.

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John Petersen submits:

By John Petersen:I've recently learned that lithium-ion batteries might be a triple threat - Borgia batteries - cherished by eco-royalty, poisonous in the extreme, and explosive enough to wreak havoc in a $25 million laboratory that was built to safely manage battery explosions.Is it a battery or a WMD?

ETF Database submits: Monday was a solid start to the week for equity markets, as reaction to the new “Basel Rules” regarding capital requirement levels, which gave banks a generous amount of time to meet the new requirements, sent shares surging. While this news remained in the spotlight for much of the day, one small sector of the economy also produced a banner day for shareholders but for a completely different reason.

By Jeremy Richards:A123 Systems (NASDAQ: AONE) should trade in the $15 range by 2015, a seven-fold increase from current levels as I will show in my analysis below. On Friday Feb. 10, 2012, I started accumulating a long position for the fund I manage. The company designs, develops, manufactures and sells advanced, rechargeable lithium-ion batteries and battery systems.