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Archive for June, 2007

GM-Volt EXCLUSIVE Interview/Podcast: Compact Power Inc. Executives Discuss Volt Battery Pack Development

June 27th, 2007 | Posted in: Battery, Latest News, Original GM-Volt Interviews with 21 Comments

In our last post, I presented an interview with Dr. Bart Riley of A123 Systems, one of the two companies GM awarded contracts to in order to develop the Volt’s battery packs. Now I’ve also had the opportunity to discuss the same issues with two top executives from the competitor company, Compact Power Inc. (CPI) [...]

Posted by: Lyle with 21 Comments

GM-Volt EXCLUSIVE: Interview and Podcast with A123 co-founder, CTO, and VP of R&D Bart Riley on Building the Volt’s Battery Pack

June 21st, 2007 | Posted in: Battery, Latest News, Original GM-Volt Interviews with 50 Comments

Today I had the opportunity to interview Dr. Bart Riley, co-founder, VP of R&D and CTO of A123 Systems. We discussed A123’s battery system and how they are going about making the Volt’s battery pack system.
This interview is important in that is reveals the first details available about A123’s plans since the June 5th [...]

Posted by: Lyle with 50 Comments

1000 Volts to be Produced by December 31, 2009

June 18th, 2007 | Posted in: General with 23 Comments

We have found a quote that is quite interesting. In this article, the author states that it is GM’s initial goal to produce 1000 Volts by the end of this decade. That means by end of 2009 by our count. As well, he reports that GM expects to sell 1 million [...]

Posted by: Lyle with 23 Comments

GM Sends in the Engineers

June 15th, 2007 | Posted in: Electric Motor, Latest News with 14 Comments

Today GM announced that they are moving 500 fuel cell experts out of the laboratory and on to the production front. Their collective work will focus on mass production of the 5th generation hydrogen fuel cell system that was unveiled in the Hydrogen Volt in Shanghai.What this means is that GM is serious about [...]

Posted by: Lyle with 14 Comments

Lithium-ion Battery War

June 11th, 2007 | Posted in: Battery with 31 Comments

As everyone knows by now, the battery war is on. GM has officially picked two companies to take their respective battery cells and figure out how to string them together and keep them cool so that they can power the car, handle many deep cycle drains, last at least 100,000 miles, and not evolve [...]

Posted by: Lyle with 31 Comments

GM-VOLT.COM Moderator Participates in Blogger Interview with Nick Zielinski, Chief Vehicle Engineer of the Volt and Gary Smyth, Director Powertrain Systems

June 7th, 2007 | Posted in: Latest News, Original GM-Volt Interviews with 35 Comments

Tonight, myself and several other bloggers including including Matt Kelly of Podtech, Sam Abuelsamid of AutoblogGreen, Todd Kaho of Green Car Journal, Scott Anderson of Hydrogen Forecast, Philip Proefrock from Ecogeek and Greenoptions, and Matt Mayer of GroovyGreen.com were given the wonderful opportunity to have a sincere and very interesting discussion about the development of [...]

Posted by: Lyle with 35 Comments

GM-VOLT.COM Moderator Participates in Blogger Interview With Micky Bly, Director of Hybrid Vehicle Integration

June 7th, 2007 | Posted in: Latest News, Original GM-Volt Interviews with 8 Comments

June 7, Detroit Michigan – Today, myself and several other bloggers including including Matt Kelly of Podtech, Sam Abuelsamid from AutoblogGreen, Todd Kaho of Green Car Journal, Scott Anderson of Hydrogen Forecast, Philip Proefrock from Ecogeek and Greenoptions, and Matt Mayer of GroovyGreen.com were given the opportunity to interview Micky Bly who is GM’s Director [...]

Posted by: Lyle with 8 Comments

GM-VOLT.COM Moderator at GM Headquarters

June 7th, 2007 | Posted in: Latest News with 13 Comments

Your trusty moderator is here right now in the lobby of GM Headquarters in Detroit, awaiting a day of meetings with several GM executives critical to the developemnt of the Volt.
I will do my best to get our questions answered!
Latest news so far includes:
-a supposed quote from GM on Volt production in 2015 (way too [...]

Posted by: Lyle with 13 Comments

GM Awards Two Volt Battery Contracts

June 5th, 2007 | Posted in: Battery, Latest News with 7 Comments

GM CEO Rick Wagoner announced today that 2 companies have been awarded contracts to develop the Lithium-ion battery packs that will power the Volt.
One went to Compact Power Inc (CPI) who will use batteries created by LG Chem. The other went to Continental Automotive Systems who will use A123 batteries.
Mr. Wagoner noted these contracts [...]

Posted by: Lyle with 7 Comments

Volt Questions Answered!

June 1st, 2007 | Posted in: Latest News with 30 Comments

Nick Zielinski, Chief Vehicle Engineer of the Volt reads common enthusiasts questions and responds to them in a video statement. He specifically addresses the following questions with the following answers:
1) When the vehicle will be released – he wont say
2) How much it will cost – he wont say except “competitively-priced”
3) [...]

Posted by: Lyle with 30 Comments

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