Even greater protection on the way. No need to depower the Volt after a crash? Following a severe crash in a Chevy Volt today, GM sends a team to depower the Volt involved in the crash to prevent the possibility of a fire days or even weeks after the crash, much like a gasoline car [...]
Road Test – Audi A6 3.0 TFSI S-tronic (A… Road Test – BMW 3 Series 328i (A) New Honda Civic enters production Toyota gives the Prius C a new Sport Pac… BMW EfficientDynamics – A better underst… What is Paper value COE Bidding Results Singapore
Volt Spokesman Says Battery Reports Off The Mark By Scott Doggett December 10, 2011 Since the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued a statement Nov. 25 announcing that it would investigate the risk of fire in crashed Chevy Volts, numerous contradictory reports have appeared in the media relating to the problem and to General [...]
A Chevy Volt battery pack. Neither Volt nor EVs more dangerous than conventional vehicles – NHTSA Three weeks after undergoing National Highway Traffic Safety Administration crash tests, a Chevy Volt lithium-ion battery pack started a fire at a NHTSA facility. Consequently, the NHTSA is going to conduct some additional tests on the Volt and its [...]
A Chevy Volt battery pack Is the Volt a $30,000 car with a $10,000 battery? Last I heard, GM is selling the Chevy Volt plug-in at cost. Likewise, GM has suggested that its battery pack costs about $8,000 per Volt, however, soon the Volt should be able to utilize new chemistries and materials to cut [...]
Onetime Battery Star Ener1 Delisted By NASDAQ By Scott Doggett November 2, 2011 Ener1 Inc., the struggling parent of Indianapolis-based advanced-battery maker EnerDel, has been booted off the NASDAQ stock exchange. The New York-based company said in a filing early last week with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it would be suspended from the [...]
Are today's lithium batteries already obsolete? Or is the battery space full of disruptive potential? For many years now Toyota has been working on a number of advanced battery technologies. Yesterday, Toyota announced that they are going to try to commercialize one of these new technologies — a solid state lithium battery capable of 621 [...]
How many more oil wars before independence? Batteries have a role to play, but they can’t do it alone I’ve been tuned-in to the world of alternative powertrains for about a decade now. In the beginning, I thought today’s automotive landscape would be quite different than it is today. Of course, then much of my [...]
Dow And Argonne To Team On New Battery Materials By Bill Visnic October 5, 2011 Dow Chemical Co. and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding for a multi-year research collaboration to jointly develop next-generation materials for advanced-battery technologies. Dow and Argonne, the largest national laboratory [...]
Battery Maker Ener1 CEO Resigns As Stock Tumbles By John O’Dell October 3, 2011 EV battery developer Ener1, gasping for breath after the bankruptcy of its largest customer, said that longtime chairman and chief executive Charles Gassenheimer is out as part of a senior management shakeup. The lithium-ion battery company also said in a statement [...]
