Is Volt success dependent on Toyota?
Without Toyota lithium will be too expensive?"Moreover, the transition to lithium-ion batteries (as needed by GM for the Volt) will be based less on particular chemistries and technical details than their suitability for being mass manufactured in a reliable, economic fashion," states a MotorTrend article this morning.
Thus, plug-in hybrid fans should, according to the article, push for the widespread adoption of current Toyota hybrid vehicles so that lithium will have the necessary economies of scale - a huge hybrid buyer's market - to make lithium cost-effective once safe, reliable lithium batteries can be mass-produced.
Interesting, since Bob Lutz has been claiming that the race between GM and Toyota towards lithium is largely about chemistry...
Labels: Chevy Volt electric vehicle concept, Hybrid Vehicles, plug-in hybrid vehicles
posted by Dahcredyns at
7:54 AM
2 Comments:
Good old Maximum Bob - the ultimate spin master. You gotta give the guy some credit. He could spin the smell of a bad fart into a rose.
That’s an interesting way to describe Bob. Bob is an impressive person, and while I don’t agree with him on many issues, having met him a couple of times, I do have a weird sense of admiration for him.
Nonetheless, this lithium story is pure insanity. Experts from every angle – chemists, engineers, manufacturers, etc are regularly contradicting each other. That cannot be a good thing.
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