Comments on: GM Opens Battery Lab to Media Tour

By: Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:34:55 +0000

I found more here if anyone's interested

By: Anakin

Anakin — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 21:26:03 +0000

I’m a froggy, and I’d like to say that this hybrid technology exists in France since more than 3 years. Unfortunately we are too stupid to make it a reallity because our government gets 80% of tax on 1 liter of petrol. See http://www.cleanova.com

The US can make it because you want be as independant as possible from the petrol of the middle east! Please do it and I’ll get one in few month when I start to work in your country.

Meanwhile I’ll get an Escape Hybrid.

By: Lab Rat

Lab Rat — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:19:34 +0000

…and 3 days earlier, at the MIT Energy 2 Conference, GM’s battery partner A123 was showing off their pack in a Prius claiming 35 miles all electric.

http://thefraserdomain.typepad.com/energy/2007/03/a123systems_lii.html#more

By: Randolph Palma

Randolph Palma — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 03:33:58 +0000

This puts us one step closer to my dream of getting my shoes polished by a direct member of the saudi royal family.

By: Herman

Herman — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 02:07:30 +0000

The GM battery test lab is for performance verification, life cycle testing, and quality inspection. All necessary steps that GM has been investing in for several years now. But the innovation in chemistry is expected to come from the battery suppliers. Luckily there are a few good ones with some great ideas. It would have been nice to see GM shift some of it’s fuel cell research dollars over to batteries, but the burden of R&D seemed to fall exclusively on the USABC and it’s modest funding. METI in Japan has been throwing significant funds at Lithium cells for years, but oddly it has not resulted in a successful, safe Li-Ion cell(yet). So the race is on, and I think GM may actually gain access to innovative world class technology at a reasonable price by the inventiveness of US based companies. Exciting times.