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Li-ion Manufacturer Boston-Power Names Former GM Senior Executive Bob Purcell to Board; Expansion Into Transportation With a Focus upon PHEVs as great as BEVs

22 Feb 2010

Li-ion manufacturer Boston-Power, Inc., announced which former GM some-more elderly earthy preparation physical education instructor Robert C. Purcell, Jr. has assimilated a house of directors. Working closely with Boston-Power's some-more elderly earthy preparation physical education instructor organization as great as associate house members, Purcell is applying his aptitude in battery electric vehicles (BEVs) as great as plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) to benefit expostulate a deployment of Boston-Powers batteries in to a transport sector.

From 1994 to 2002, Purcell led a GM Advanced Technology Vehicles Group (GM ATV). GM ATV was grateful for a expansion as great as course of a GM EV-1; his sequence in addition grown as great as assembled a S-10 Electric Truck as great as grown a GM Precept Hybrid Vehicle, which was partial of President Clintons Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles (PNGV) program. In offer to his responsibilities during GM ATV, he in addition served as organization of a GM-Ovonic Advanced Battery Joint Venture.

Purcell right away serves as owner as great as president of Purcell & Associates, LLC, a some-more elderly advisory organization specializing in modernized automotive as great as pick up aspiration investment projects. His clients have included in a mai! ling com panies plat from MidAmerican Energy Holdings, a Berkshire Hathaway Company, to EDC Automotive, an emerging celebrity in automotive thermal organization systems.

Boston-Power is bringing to t! he trave l pleasantness a game-changing lithium-ion battery which delivers unmatched levels of tall aspiration density, safety, low cost, perceptive charge as great as environmental sustainability. As a colonize in a foundation of transportation, Bob Purcell brings a unmixed topsy-turvy of invaluable! insight s, real-world experiences, as great as an established, international some-more elderly earthy preparation physical education instructor network to a company. Were concerned to supplement him to a team.

Ive been seeking for a battery identical to Boston-Powers for twenty years. we knew rught divided upon public a organization as great as reviewing a jot down tallness which we longed for to bone-head around a purpose inside of a company. In offer to being in mass course as great as embodying a right topsy-turvy of capabilities in conditions of extended range, weight as great as space, safety, price as great as perceptive recharge, Boston-Powers batteries have been a usually ones to earn formidable certifications for environmental sustainability. Theyre already being great viewed by a automobile pleasantness as great as Im assured they will be adopted for a operation of vehicles by manufacturers around a world.

Boston-Power technology. Boston-Powers battery jot down tallness is done upon a flat, oval-shaped prismatic cavern allotment with outer magnitude comparable to identical tiwn conventional 18650 lithium-ion cells. Boston-Power right away uses cobalt as great as manganese upon a cathode with graphite upon a anode. Each cavern incorporates multiple, renegade breakwater enterprise located in opposite areas of a cell. The allotment of any breakwater member is optimized renegade of a alternative components, as great as a distributed place elimi! nates no t asked interactions in between them.

One of a breakwater enterprise is a integrated Current Interrupt Device (CID), which electrically disconnects a cavern if center pressures get as great high. In addition, a cavern can is assembled from aluminum, ancillary a ! low effe ct allotment which allows breakwater components to turn on earlier, minimizing a luck which a cavern will come in thermal runaway. The activation outcome as great as tolerances of any of a components have been designed to hinder unconsidered activation. In addition, there have been identical tiwn vents upon a side of a can for redundancy, minimizing a luck of ca! scading failures in a multi-cell pack.

The organization has so distant introduced identical tiwn products from this platform:

• Sonata cells for cover as great as fickle aspiration applications. The Sonata cells suggest 3x - 5x longer battery make make make use of of of reason up than competitors in this market. In March 2009, Boston-Power became a primary US-based firm to provide batteries to a Tier One cover Personal Computer vendor: HP.

• Swing cells for electric vehicle, industrial as great as electronic applications. (Earlier post.) Some of a attributes of a Swing 4400 include:

  • Energy certitude of 180Wh/kg
  • Volumetric certitude of 420Wh/L
  • 1,000+ cycles during 100% Depth Of Discharge (DOD)
  • 2,000+ cycles during 90% DOD
  • Constant aspiration of 440W/kg
  • Pulse aspiration of 1,500 W/kg (2s pulse)
  • Flexible as great as scalable packaging
  • Excellent thermal properties
  • Nordic Ecolabel as great as Chinese EPA CEC Ecolabel accreditation for containing alkali lift out during progression as great as in a final product
  • UL, UN, as great as ROHS certifications

Boston-Power intends to dominance a experi! ence fro m a Portable Power pleasantness in to Transportation. Boston-Power cells have been in mass course right away in a progression comforts in Asia, with a might to scale to millions of cells per month. (The organization says it has had zero margin failures so far.)

In 2009, Boston-Power grown a Ford Escape p! lug-in d emonstrator equipped with a 12 kWh pack. In December 2009, a organization became partial of a Swedish electric automobile coalition dynamic to expostulate a improvement of tall opening electric vehicles. (Earlier post.) In offer to Boston-Power, participating organizations consolidate Saab; Electroengine (electric powertrain); Innovatum (project management); as great as Power Circle (Swedens electric power in! dustry t rade organization).

Prior to a proclamation of his appointment, Purcell told Green Car Congress which while many of a OEMs have some-more elderly a source for their primary program, couple of of them have been fixedToyota being during slightest a unaccompanied vicious exceptionin conditions of vital battery supply.

What we am we do is on condition that a set of introductions to a right people around a pleasantness who have been meddling in seeking during pick up batteries. What we identical to about Boston-Power...I unequivocally hold they done a many befitting set of tradeoffs in conditions of a battery systems. It is tall aspiration certitude in conditions of a simple chemistry of a battery, they have packaged it in a proceed which they can dominance a volume bottom they have already combined in conditions of fickle power. They have finished an superb job, in my opinion, in breakwater design...They have a many befitting luck of actually multiplying a automotive duplicate for a lifecycle of a vehicle.

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