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12-22-2008, 07:09 AM
The only US company currently providing batteries to production vehicles is Cobasys. (http://www.hybridcars.com/news/us-hybrid-battery-companies-join-forces-25369.html)
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/Large_format_LiON.JPGhybridCARS (http://www.hybridcars.com) – Dec. 21, 2008
A group of US battery companies teamed up this week to boost American manufacturing of lithium ion batteries. The new alliance aims to compete with Asian companies that currently dominate the lithium ion battery market.
The production of affordable lithium ion batteries is viewed as the key to success for the next generation of hybrid and electric cars.
The newly formed National Alliance for Advanced Transportation Battery Cell Manufacture will create one or more manufacturing and prototype development centers in the United States, working with the Argonne National Laboratory as advisors. Members include 3M, ActaCell, All Cell Technologies, Altair Nanotechnologies, EaglePicher, EnerSys, Envia Systems, FMC, Johnson Controls-Saft, MicroSun, Mobius Power, SiLyte, Superior Graphite and Townsend Advanced Energy.
Earlier this year, battery makers Johnson Controls of Milwaukee, and Saft Advanced Power Solutions of Bagnolet, France opened the facility, the world's first factory dedicated to advanced lithium ion batteries for electric and hybrid cars. Johnson Controls - Saft is now part of the National Alliance for Advanced Transportation Battery Cell Manufacture, which hopes to build battery facilities in the United States.
The plan of the alliance is to replicate the success of Sematech, a government-industry collaboration of US semiconductor-makers that was formed in the 1980s to address... http://www.hybridcars.com/news/us-hybrid-battery-companies-join-forces-25369.html
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/Large_format_LiON.JPGhybridCARS (http://www.hybridcars.com) – Dec. 21, 2008
A group of US battery companies teamed up this week to boost American manufacturing of lithium ion batteries. The new alliance aims to compete with Asian companies that currently dominate the lithium ion battery market.
The production of affordable lithium ion batteries is viewed as the key to success for the next generation of hybrid and electric cars.
The newly formed National Alliance for Advanced Transportation Battery Cell Manufacture will create one or more manufacturing and prototype development centers in the United States, working with the Argonne National Laboratory as advisors. Members include 3M, ActaCell, All Cell Technologies, Altair Nanotechnologies, EaglePicher, EnerSys, Envia Systems, FMC, Johnson Controls-Saft, MicroSun, Mobius Power, SiLyte, Superior Graphite and Townsend Advanced Energy.
Earlier this year, battery makers Johnson Controls of Milwaukee, and Saft Advanced Power Solutions of Bagnolet, France opened the facility, the world's first factory dedicated to advanced lithium ion batteries for electric and hybrid cars. Johnson Controls - Saft is now part of the National Alliance for Advanced Transportation Battery Cell Manufacture, which hopes to build battery facilities in the United States.
The plan of the alliance is to replicate the success of Sematech, a government-industry collaboration of US semiconductor-makers that was formed in the 1980s to address... http://www.hybridcars.com/news/us-hybrid-battery-companies-join-forces-25369.html