Cobasys stikes again

[AZEqualizer]

Smart Says Cobasys Hampering Work on ForTwo EV Fitted With Li-Ion Batteries.
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This according to an article on Green Car Advisor (http://blogs.edmunds.com/greencaradvisor/2008/09/smart-says-cobasys-hampering-work-on-fortwo-ev-fitted-with-li-ion-batteries.html):

In early June it was reported (http://66.160.188.111/GreenCarAdvisor/.eea7cad) that General Motors won't sell as many hybrid cars as it had hoped this year due to 9,000 defective batteries supplied by Cobasys.

Now the Michigan-based battery maker is being blamed for holding up the release of electric Smart ForTwos fitted with advanced lithium-ion battery packs.


Smart had hoped to bring to market ForTwos packing lithium-ion batteries by the end of 2009.

Early last month, Mercedes-Benz sued (http://blogs.edmunds.com/greencaradvisor/2008/08/mercedes-alleges-troubled-battery-supplier-may-delay-production-of-ml450-hybrid.html) Cobasys and its parent companies (Chevron Technology Venture LLC. and Ovionic Battery Company Inc), claiming the battery maker wasn't delivering the battery packs it agreed to build for Mercedes' ML450 Hybrid.

[Miracleman89]

Uhmmm I think this sums it up! "Chevron"

[RAN]

These people should be dragged by their scrotums through a lake of fire. I wish cancer on every one of them.

[Mark Tomlinson]

AZE uses the words "Strikes Again" in the title, I believe, because they have a long and storied history.

Originally, they were the batteries that gave the EV1 a more-than 120 mile range, and they were getting better. But through a series of sell-outs and take-overs, they ended under Chevron without the inventor, Stan Ovshinsky, and where not heard from again until the GM tapped them for the Volt.

[PHEVadvocate]

To see something so much promise, being wasted and so thoroughly trashed is tragic and it makes me: :mad:

On the bright side we know the Three Stooges are still alive and managing Cobasys!=y:

I bet the people who really care in the company are: bang:h:1

[AZEqualizer]

According to the Green Car Advisor (http://blogs.edmunds.com/greencaradvisor/2008/10/exxonmobile-developing-lithium-ion-battery-technology-for-electric-vehicles.html) :

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ExxonMobile Chemical is working with U.S. battery maker EnerDel to develop lithium-ion battery technologies for hybrid and electric vehicles.

The oil company had done little to publicize its work on lithium-ion battery technology before Monday, when it announced that it won the 2008 ICIS Chemical Business award for best product innovation for its battery separator film technology.

Separator films are designed to keep the batteries' positive and negative fields from touching, which allows the batteries to operate at higher temperatures and produce more power without overheating.
The technology, pioneered by a team of ExxonMobil Chemical scientists, can significantly improve the power, capacity, stability and safety margins of lithium-ion batteries.

It has a contract to supply power batteries to Think Global, a Norwegian firm that plans to produce 10,000 electric vehicles per year in 2009, and it is working with U.S. and Japanese automakers on advanced battery systems.

Hopefully this won't turn into another Chevron type of move.:shup:

[RAN]

There's already a thread on this subject, called, strangely enough, "Exxon Mobil Working on a Better Battery"