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Article: Compact Power delivers.(NOTABLE)
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- Automotive Design & Production
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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The battle to develop GM's E-Flex electric vehicle architecture took a significant step forward when Compact Power (www.compactpower.com), a subsidiary of Korea's LG Chem, delivered its first battery pack to the automaker. Compact Power and A123 Systems (see AD & P October, 2007) are the two main competitors to supply lithium-ion batteries to GM for its Chevrolet Volt and other E-Flex vehicles by the automaker's late-2010 timeframe.
Unlike A123's nanophosphate chemistry, Prabhakar Patil, Compact Power's CEO, says his company's design uses lithium manganese spinel cathode chemistry for improved thermal management, cost and reliability. "The benefit of the ...