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Battery maker A123 has announced that batteries it supplied to Fisker Automotive for its Karma range-extended luxury sedan might have "misaligned" hose clamps for the cooling system, which could cause coolant to leak. Unabated, A123 admits the leak could cause an electrical ...

The heat is rising and the cause isn't a crashed battery pack catching on fire. As part of the hearing by a U.S. House's subcommittee hearing on the Chevrolet Volt's post-crash fire at a NHTSA test facility earlier this year, three Republicans have sent a letter to General Motors CEO Dan Akerson ...

A123 Systems has had to lay off 125 employees at two Michigan locations because of Fisker's lengthy delay getting the Karma luxury plug-in hybrid to market. That's the bad news. The potentially good news is that the layoffs may be temporary. Even though Fisker has reduced its 2011 Karma orders to ...

A raft of production delays slowed the arrival of the first Fisker Karma. Though the initial round of vehicles were finally delivered, the delays mean that Fisker will only ship 1,500 of the four door plug-in hybrids in 2011, well short of the original target of 7,000. There has been an effort ...

Here's an unsurprising lede: A big part of the cost of electric vehicles lies in the batteries. The good news is that this may soon change. Expectations have been that those costs will fall with increased production, and there have even been predictions of battery oversupply in the near future. ...

A123 Systems says it currently has over 20 lithium-ion battery contracts in the works. Of those, A123 says ten of the transportation-related li-ion deals have already entered the production phase and that its "sourced" and "development" contracts call for A123 to eventually manufacture ...

General Motors has signed a contract calling for lithium-ion batteries to be supplied by A123 Systems for use in the automaker's future electric vehicles. GM says A123's advanced Nanophosphate lithium-ion batteries will power "future GM electric vehicles to be sold in select global markets." ...

MotoCzysz has convincingly won the TT Zero on the Island of Man with its just-completed 2011 version of the E1pc. Piloted by Michael Rutter, the bike crossed the finish line after taking just 22 minutes and 43.68 seconds to complete the 37.733-mile course. He was closely shadowed for much of the ...

A123 Systems has reached an agreement to supply battery modules for the entire lineup of commercial electric vehicles manufactured by Smith Electric Vehicles. A123 says that it will begin shipping its 5-kWh automotive-class prismatic modules to Smith for integration into battery packs in the ...