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Chevy Volt battery plant location to be announced this week

Back in January at the Detroit Auto Show, then-CEO Rick Wagoner announced that General Motors would be building the battery packs for the Chevy Volt at a new plant to be located somewhere in Michigan. At the time, no one from the company would admit where the plant would be located although it was presumed it wouldn't be far from Detroit. The Volt will be assembled at the Detroit-Hamtramck factory and the bulk of the battery packs makes it logistically advantageous to limit the shipping distance. A few weeks back, a rumor surfaced that the ... Read more →

Nissan to spend $1 billion on U.S. battery plant, 4 more plants in Europe Sam Abuelsamid

Nissan was one of the three recipients in the first round of low interest loans through the U.S. Department of Energy's ATVM program along with Ford and Tesla. Nissan will be getting $1.6 billion ...

Ferdinand Porsche Award goes to lithium battery researchers Sam Abuelsamid

This year's "Professor Ferdinand Porsche Award" has gone to Dipl. Eng. Michael Keller from Temic Automotive Electric Motors GmbH, Berlin, and Prof. Herbert Kohler from Daimler AG, Stuttgart. The ...

Daimler looking for an extra partner in its lithium battery venture Sam Abuelsamid

Late last year, Daimler AG announced that it would partner with Evonik for the development and manufacturing of automotive lithium ion batteries. Daimler bought half of Evonik's LiTec battery unit at ...

Nissan-NEC JV to invest for 200,000 Li-ion batteries annually by 2011 Sam Abuelsamid

Nissan and NEC are apparently seeing a lot of potential for their lithium battery joint venture. The Japanese Nikkei is reporting that Automotive Energy Supply Corp. will spend upwards of $1.1 billion ...

Toshiba wants EV battery business, 3M lithium cells/month in 2010 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

It's looking increasingly likely that plug-in vehicles will not entirely bring America energy independence, at least not in terms of energy storage. The fact that American business over the last couple of years seems to have largely given up on manufacturing in favor of being a service economy ...

Will lithium battery costs ever come down? 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Battery-powered cars have a lot to recommend them, but they still have one major flaw - the batteries! Compared to almost any other energy storage solution, even the best of today's electrochemical batteries still have very low energy density and very high cost. Every major car manufacturer is ...


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