Submitted on December 20th, 2008 by EVtransPortal (not verified)
A123 buys it's cells from Asia, and has them assembled in Europe by Continental (for Vehicles) like the Chevy Volt, (I guess that since they have offices in Massachusetts you can call them a US manufacturer, but that is a stretch.) although the Volt deal apparently has gone to Compact Power and LG Chem
Ener 1 was lined up to start manufacturing batteries for the Think, but they have stopped production on the Think due to the financial crisis and the Norwegian Government does not appear to be willing to bail them out. I'm not sure how having US taxpayers spend billions more to help 3M, GE and companies like FMC is going to change the fact that it's still going to be way cheaper to produce the advanced batteries in China. Just look at the price of the Chinese BYD hybrid at $22,000 with 60 mile electric range versus over $40,000 for the Chevy Volt with 40 mile electric range. There is no lithium-ion battery manufacturing for cell phones in the US for the same reason, (higher production cost) and that market is needed to support vehicle battery production.
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Submitted on December 20th, 2008 by EVtransPortal (not verified)A123 buys it's cells from Asia, and has them assembled in Europe by Continental (for Vehicles) like the Chevy Volt, (I guess that since they have offices in Massachusetts you can call them a US manufacturer, but that is a stretch.) although the Volt deal apparently has gone to Compact Power and LG Chem
Ener 1 was lined up to start manufacturing batteries for the Think, but they have stopped production on the Think due to the financial crisis and the Norwegian Government does not appear to be willing to bail them out. I'm not sure how having US taxpayers spend billions more to help 3M, GE and companies like FMC is going to change the fact that it's still going to be way cheaper to produce the advanced batteries in China. Just look at the price of the Chinese BYD hybrid at $22,000 with 60 mile electric range versus over $40,000 for the Chevy Volt with 40 mile electric range. There is no lithium-ion battery manufacturing for cell phones in the US for the same reason, (higher production cost) and that market is needed to support vehicle battery production.