Battery and materials companies joining forces
By Andrew C., 30 Aug, 2010. 0 Comments
Battery and materials companies are joining forces with the Argonne National Laboratory to design manufacturing potential for superior auto batteries in the US.Today, the group released a statement saying that the emerging and future vehicles, which will depend less on gasoline and more on electric power, will require superior lithium ion batteries. But the capability to make those batteries can only mainly be found off shore, said the statement.
The new National Alliance for Advanced Transportation Battery Cell Manufacture targets to make one or more manufacturing and test model development centers in the US. The statement said that Alliance members will share those centers.The statement said that the venture will, over five years, require the spending of between $1 billion to $2 billion, mostly from the federal government. Continued after the jump!
The announcement said that "The alliance will permit the most efficient use of available government support by having alliance members share in the use of a large, ultramodern manufacturing facility rather than having to compete for multiple smaller, less ambitious government programs." The alliance said it is looking to duplicate the success of Sematech, a government-sponsored partnership of U.S. semiconductor makers. Sematech was created in the 1980s to tackle the migration of the manufacturing of semiconductors from the US to Asia.
The pioneering members of the auto battery alliance are 3M, ActaCell, All Cell Technologies, Altair Nanotechnologies, EaglePicher, EnerSys, Envia Systems, FMC, Johnson Controls-Saft, MicroSun, Mobius Power, Townsend Advanced Energy and SiLyte, Superior Graphite. The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, close to Chicago, advertized the creation of the coalition and will play an advisory capacity. The alliance said representatives of U.S. car and truck manufacturers and the U.S. Defense Department will be called to be on an advisory panel.
[source automotivenews]
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