GM, LG to Spend $2.3B on Venture to Make Electric-Car Batteries

Re:GM, LG to Spend $2.3B on Venture to Make Electric-Car Bat... by elihu on Friday December 06, 2019 @02:57PM (#21725385)

Good. They make some interesting batteries with unusual specs.

Here's a 38 pound battery pack that can allegedly source 800 amps (briefly), with a nominal voltage of 60.8. That's crazy. You could run a car off of about three of these. It wouldn't go very far, but still. It's kind of the exact opposite of the Tesla approach, which is to use cells with low-ish power density, but to make up for it by using huge battery packs.

https://www.evwest.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=4&prod...

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Re:GM, LG to Spend $2.3B on Venture to Make Electric-Car Bat... by csours on Friday December 06, 2019 @03:48PM (#21725844)

FYI, LG Chem makes the current batteries for the Chevy Bolt EV

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Re:GM, LG to Spend $2.3B on Venture to Make Electric-Car Bat... by elihu on Friday December 06, 2019 @04:55PM (#21726361)

Also, the Chrysler Pacifica hybrid. I'm not sure if those are the same cells used in the Bolt, but Pacifica battery packs are where a lot those LG chem batteries on the used market come from.

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