Comments on: BREAKING: LG Chem and Compact Power Inc. to Supply Volt Battery Packs

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 06:30:51 +0000

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By: Dan Petit

Dan Petit — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 21:28:59 +0000

What can be *done* to change all levels of school/university curricula to advance far, far more time for the practical math and applied sciences (which have been long-degraded in America) helping to preserve high paying jobs or to produce many new ones?
(Believe me, if you want greater advance-systems-training-success for the accurate diagnosis of your vehicle’s highly advanced systems, the above question should be relentlessly addressed).
What can be *done* to help in the reduction of costing for the battery pack for the Volt, such as helping whichever battery suppliers know that additional “economies of scale”, (if raw material supplies and production capacities permit) be assured them for a far, far massive demand in their economy-of-scale for their productions, such as many more of us wanting to buy anything from high-end-cost power tools as we can today, as well as not-so-high-end tools such as very powerful flashlights, or automotive jump-boxes with all-in-one built-ins, etc., even if these products retail at a far higher retail cost?
Sending emails to potential Home supplier Department store purchasing departments and tool company purchasing departments with requests that some products offered for sale to us be considered to be manufactured with the same battery as the Volt may utilize (again, keeping in mind available capacities in our hopes/expectations), that “spin-off-product” production of the cells may be of indirect assistance in the lowering of the cost of the Volt. An industry-standard-format cell (although maybe of differing chemistries if need be) may easily help reduce production costs. These are things we can * do * *now* if we can be assured they may be helpful to some of the concerns in the postings here.
Dan Petit Austin, TX

By: CS Guy

CS Guy — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 21:02:11 +0000

A123 is small enough to be a takeover target for big oil.

Look what happened to the EV1 battery? The technology was bought by Chevron (IIRC) and they haven’t made any of it available for sale. Isn’t it amazing that in 10 years that proven, working, successful technology hasn’t seen the light of day again?

By going with a well-financed company like LG they are making sure the same thing cannot happen again.

Let this be the lesson learned. Big Oil cares about Big Oil. Not you. Not the car makers or our economy (recent events should prove this). Not our future or environment. It’s all about the “benjamins.” And they will do ANYTHING to make sure that you stay addicted to their poison.

Battery Electric cars are our only hope of escaping their grasp.

=No Plug, No Sale! Ever!

By: madhu

madhu — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:34:51 +0000

I suggest if roof of the car is embedded with solar cells or silicon wafers, it could easily add another 400-500W of power which can be used to boost the electric motors during motion or charging the battery. It may increase the cost… but it will increase the range of teh vehicle and save some extra dollars in the long run.

By: K. Davis

K. Davis — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:26:44 +0000

I’m very disappointed at how different the body style is from the prototype. Instead of a sport car-like body, it now looks like a Prius!

By: Alternative Fuels Now » Chrysler REALLY Wants to Be GM: Advertises "Volt"

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:59:58 +0000

[...] just received a message from Lyle over at GM-Volt saying that GM has decided who will be supplying the Volt’s battery (LG Chem, if you’re curious.) And what do I see, but an ad for the “Volt”… [...]

By: Aislinn Quinn

Aislinn Quinn — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:20:53 +0000

Excited about your electric car, but totally put off with anti-Iran ads. Kind of sours the whole thing…

By: Luke

Luke — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 14:34:39 +0000

Dylan @ 4,

vote for mccain & palin

Comments like this are the reason I stopped reading gm-volt.com regularly. Then I get an e-mail about what looks like a very significant engineering development — and I have to listen to your jingoistic politics?!?

Please, let’s talk about the car — if you want this car to be a success you’ll have to accept that some of us “hippies” are interested in this car. Anyway, I’ve gotta get back in my pickup truck, take off my baseball hat, and haul a trailer load of power tools through the 175 miles of Appalachian Mountains and rain to my dad’s organic vegetable farm, and then drive back to my new home in Illinois. I’d much rather be doing this in an e-flex Colorado, but my old Ranger will have to do.

By: MarkinWI

MarkinWI — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:41:18 +0000

#234 GleninWI – supply and demand have to grow in tandem in order for economic growth to be sustainable. It is not about Democrats and Republicans. It is about what the economy needs in order to be healthy right now. In 1980 we needed to de-centralize some industries. The break-up of Ma Bell was great. Reducing the top tax rates probably did help job growth. But we’ve gone too far, and the system is out of balance. If no one has money to buy what your factory makes, then you will not have a job. Balance, baby, balance.

By: Kerry Webster » The Volt Gets a Battery Supplier

Kerry Webster » The Volt Gets a Battery Supplier — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 04:13:02 +0000

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