A123Systems to supply Chrysler EV line
It’s difficult to play up such announcements when Chrysler is on the verge of bankruptcy, but it’s still good news that the auto giant has chosen A123Systems to supply its first generation of EV vehicles with lithium-ion batteries. Having come second in the race to supply General Motors, A123Systems still announced plans to manufacture its batteries in Michigan. This gamble paid off, as Chrysler and A123Systems can now claim to have “Made In America” EVs, something GM can’t claim. The two companies are already playing up this patriotic angle.
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Tyler Hamilton is editor-in-chief of Corporate Knights magazine and a business columnist for the Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper. In addition to this Clean Break blog, Tyler writes a weekly column of the same name that discusses trends, happenings and innovators in the clean technology and green energy market. This blog is a personal project started in April 2005. It is not an official blog of the newspaper.
April 6th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
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April 6th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Who chose that name for the company?
“Huh, lots of battery company names are taken…”
“Uhh, what about battech?”
“No no, that sounds like we make batmans stuff…”
“Oh…Ok, how about A123 Systems?”
“GREAT!!!”
Followed by the guys at GM:
“We need a good battery for the Volt…”
“Hey, A123Systems is first in the phone book, they MUST be good!”
“GREAT!”