Archive for April, 2008
Get Ready for the A123 Systems IPO
Sure we’re saving our pennies to buy a Chevy Volt, the economy is sputtering, and GM just lost $3.3 billion this quarter.
But wouldn’t it be great to tap into that future $30 billion lithium-ion automotive battery market?
The news li-ion battery investors out there have been waiting for is starting to trickle in.
Watertown Massachusetts battery-maker A123 [...]
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J.D. Power: 300,000 Chevy Volts Will be Sold by 2014
There is an interesting and thoughtful article about A123, and how it went from a handshake between an entrepreneur and a scientist into a company with 1000 employees and a chance at being GMs Volt battery supplier.
Buried in that story is a striking statement that I have never heard or seen.
We debate and wonder how [...]
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CEO of Compact Power on His Charge to Build the Volt’s Battery
Compact Power, Inc. (CPI) is a Troy Michigan-based company with 50 employees (on its way to 100) which has teamed up with the massive battery maker, Korea’s LG Chem, as one of the teams vying to make the Volt’s battery pack.
A new interview with CPIs’ CEO Prabhakar Patil is published by Edmunds.
Patil indicates he believes [...]
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Take a Brief GM-Volt.com Reader Survey
GM-Volt.com has just been signed to the Internet advertising agency Federated Media. This company is significant, they are the ad partners for such massive sites as Techcrunch, BoingBoing, and Digg.
This relationship will allows us access to high quality direct advertisers and actually help us spread the Volt word to corporate America.
Sorry to do this, [...]
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How Much Will the Chevy Volt Cost?
“How much it will cost?” is by far the most asked question about the Chevy Volt. Not only most discussed but certain to bring forth strong discussion. The higher the quote the stronger the vitriol.
There was no mention of price when the concept debuted in January 07. The dialog began in May 07, when GM [...]
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Chevy Volt Generation Two
No sooner than we hear the first Chevy Volt lithium-ion battery powered prototypes are tooling around the track, than a GM VP is giving an interview about the next generation Volt.
Fact is the Volt is here to stay (and GM-Volt.com along with it). Indeed we have heard GM North America president Troy Clarke call the [...]
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GM Considering a Pure Electric Chevy Volt Without a Range Extender
Scott from PetroZero reports that he had an email conversation with GM vice-chairman Bob Lutz the other day. This is also being reported over at Autobloggreen .
Scott asked him the popular question, "Since the ICE gets 50 mpg when charging the battery, why not skip the battery and get a 50 mpg car."
In response, Lutz [...]
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Lutz’ Confidence in Volt’s 2010 Timeline is Growing
The Wall Street Journal has decided to redeem itself after the recent illogical Volt editorial , and has now published an interview with GM vice-chairman Bob Lutz.
Reporter John Stoll writes that Lutz has "growing confidence" the Volt will indeed be produced in 30 months. Lutz recognizes that the Volt is a "must-win" project for [...]
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BREAKING: First Lithium-ion Prototype Chevy Volt Running
The Detroit News today reported an interview with GM vice-chairman Bob Lutz. Lutz verified for the first time publicly that a Chevy Volt prototype with an actual full-sized lithium ion battery is actually running.
To me this marks a dramatic and critical turning point in the nearly year and half we’ve been following the car’s [...]
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Is GM Really Building the Volt So it Can Sell More Gas Guzzlers?
An editorial appeared today in the Wall Street Journal entitled "A Volt Out of the Red". It was written in reaction to the transportation department’s proposal yesterday that cars be required to get 36 mpg by 2015. The author asks the question, in light of this, as to whether GM was "genius or [...]
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GM-Volt.com on NBC Nightly News
We have achieved another milestone here at GM-Volt.com. On earth day, 4/22/2008, NBC Nightly News aired a segment about the Chevy Volt featuring our site GM-Volt.com.
My thanks and appreciation to reporter Brian Thompson who did an excellent job creating the segment. With each new foray into mainstream media, we are all helping to [...]
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More Thoughts on Th!nk versus Volt
Forbes has published a discussion of the new Th!nk City announcement and rolls in comparisons to the Chevy Volt.
For one thing, the author suggests Th!nk might be going down the same path GM took with the EV-1, a low-range 2-seat EV, and could wind up a failure because of limited acceptance. In contrast however, [...]
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Recent Posts
- Update: EnerDel’s Chairman on the Cost of the Th!nk Lithium-ion Battery Pack
- GM Marching to a New Beat: Expect Mutiple Volt Versions
- Exclusive: Interview With EnerDel Chairman Charles Gassenheimer
- Wall Street Journal Opinion - Chevy Volt Just a Political Tool
- GM on June Sales: Asia Doesn’t Have a Monopoly on Fuel-Efficient Vehicles
- Artist’s Estimation of the Production Chevy Volt
- Should GM Skip the Volt and Just Make More Efficient Gas Cars?
- Continental Says Chances Good of Getting Volt Battery Contract
- Lutz Explains Why the EV-1 Can’t Simply Be Reintroduced
- Ford Calls the Chevy Volt a Hail Mary Play
