As of yesterday Chevrolet had it’s first production-spec battery pack unit built and roll down the assembly line. While the Volt fan club has been anticipating and waiting for this, GM’s engineers are still fiddling with management software to make sure they are getting all the mileage and life out of the units. GM’s assembly line for the battery packs is located in Brownstown Township, MI in a massive 160,000 sq. ft. building housing 25 employees assembling the packs. While these battery packs might be costing upwards of $10,000 for the Volt’s 16kWh pack which works out to about $500-$600 per kWh, GM hopes to bring it close to $300 per kWh (about $5,000 for the 16kWh battery pack) by 2015 in accordance with the U.S. Advanced Battery Consortium. More information on the first pack roll out can be found over at AutoBlog.com. Let me know what you think about any of this. Yes, even those of you who may think anyone in the rear seats will be sitting directly over the pack and have a possible chance of impotency from the packs radiation!
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You have a fine point, but how can anyone converse this when Florida is covered in crude oil!?
Actually now would be the best time as ever to converse this since we wouldn’t have to depend so heavily of oil rigs in the Gulf or overseas for that matter if more cars were run off Batteries instead of gasoline. It’s nonetheless a terrible disaster that has happened in Florida and the Southeastern coastline with the oil spill though.