Volt battery supplier Compact Power profiled
Compact Power Inc. is one of the two companies that last week was awarded development contracts to produce batteries for the prototype Chevy Volts. CPI is a relatively new company in the US but they have roots in South Korean conglomerate LG. Right now they only have twenty-five people at their facility in Troy, MI but that will be growing as they ramp up development on the battery pack that they hope will ultimately power the production version of one of the most anticipated cars from a US automaker in many years.
Led by former Ford engineering manager Prabhakar Patil, CPI will integrate lithium ion cells produced by their parent company into a pack complete with charge and thermal management systems. Patil is now the second former leader on the Escape hybrid program to be working on a battery program for General Motors along with Mary Ann Wright who heads Johnson Controls-Saft in their development of a battery pack for the plug-in Saturn Vue Hybrid. Over the next several months all four companies that now have supply contracts will be creating packs that will be thoroughly tested at the battery lab at the General Motors Tech Center before being installed in vehicles. The Detroit Free Press has a profile of CPI today.
[Source: Detroit Free Press]
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Tim 12:51PM (6/11/2007)
According to this September 1993 issue of the US Gov’t D.O.E.s Office of Transportation Technology’s HEV Technical Advisor paper... “After investigating both the Gas Turbine and the Stirling Engine, the choice of the HPU (Hybrid Power Unit) was narrowed to the Stirling engine.” GM completed this work in 1993! http://www.p2pays.org/ref/16/15287.pdf All about the batteries? There is so much smoke here, we can’t even find the mirrors.
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Ping Wang 1:13PM (6/11/2007)
The work may have been done in 1993, but that was 14 years ago.
things have changed.
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power lory 4:10AM (7/02/2007)
Verizon is about the only place you can get the authentic RIM product and matching door. Most other sites are out of stock and even when they are in stock they have the black battery door which looks like crap.
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power lory 4:12AM (7/02/2007)
Verizon is about the only place you can get the authentic RIM product and matching door. Most other sites are out of stock and even when they are in stock they have the black battery door which looks like crap.
We supply a large range of rechargeable Laptop Battery packs for your Laptop , All Laptop Battery in our http://www.laptopbatterybbs.com are made with high quality cells.
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hstnn-db11 9:02PM (10/12/2007)
The Sony http://www.batteryfast.com laptop batteries cells are known to be defective. Lenovo will not gurantee us that
we have cells that are not defective. In fact they have confirmed that our Lenovo battery
packs have the same battery cells that are know to be contaminated. I am very upset that
Lenovo is not doing a similar recall of the known contaminated cells!
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