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

22 Feb 2010

Li-ion manufacturer Boston-Power, Inc., announced that former GM comparison physical education instructor Robert C. Purcell, Jr. has assimilated the house of directors. Working closely with Boston-Power's comparison physical education instructor organisation as good as associate house members, Purcell is applying his imagination in battery electric vehicles (BEVs) as good as plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) to help expostulate the deployment of Boston-Powers batteries in to the transport sector.

From 1994 to 2002, Purcell led the GM Advanced Technology Vehicles Group (GM ATV). GM ATV was thankful for the expansion as good as progression of the GM EV-1; his sequence additionally grown as good as assembled the S-10 Electric Truck as good as grown the GM Precept Hybrid Vehicle, that was partial of President Clintons Partnership for the New Generation of Vehicles (PNGV) program. In serve to his responsibilities during GM ATV, he additionally served as authority of the GM-Ovonic Advanced Battery Joint Venture.

Purcell right away serves as founder as good as boss of Purcell & Associates, LLC, the comparison advisory organisation specializing in modernized automotive as good as collect ardour investment projects. His clients have included in the mailing companies pleat from MidAmerican Energy Holdings, the Berkshire Hathaway Company, to EDC Automotive, an rising personality in automotive thermal government systems.

Boston-Power is bring! ing to t he transport courtesy the game-changing lithium-ion battery that delivers unmatched levels of tall ardour density, safety, low cost, discerning assign as good as environmental sustainability. As the inhabit in the electrification of transportation, Bob Purcell brings the undiluted mixed of invaluable! insight s, real-world experiences, as good as an established, international comparison physical education instructor network to the company. Were thrilled to supplement him to the team.

Ive been looking for the battery like Boston-Powers for twenty years. you knew rught away on assembly the organisation as good as reviewing the jot down platform that you wanted to fool around the role inside of the company. In serve to being in mass progression as good as embodying the right mixed of capabilities in conditions of lengthened range, weight as good as space, safety, price as good as discerning recharge, Boston-Powers batteries have been the only ones to earn difficult certifications for environmental sustainability. Theyre already being good perceived by the auto courtesy as good as Im assured they will be adopted for the operation of vehicles by manufacturers around the world.

Boston-Power technology. Boston-Powers battery jot down platform is formed on the flat, oval-shaped kaleidoscopic dungeon pattern with outmost magnitude homogeneous to twin required 18650 lithium-ion cells. Boston-Power right away uses cobalt as good as manganese on the cathode with graphite on the anode. Each dungeon incorporates multiple, individualist haven inclination located in opposite areas of the cell. The pattern of any haven component is optimized individualist of the alternative components, as good as the distributed place eliminates not asked interactions in in between them.

One of the haven inclination is the integrated Current Interrupt Device (CID), that electrically disconnects the dungeon if middle pressures get as good high. In addition, the dungeon ca! n is ass embled from aluminum, supporting the low effect pattern that allows haven components to turn on earlier, minimizing the probability that the dungeon will come in thermal runaway. The activation effect as good as tolerances of any of the components have been written to prevent inadvertent activation. In addition, there have been twin vents on the side of the can for redundancy, minimizing the probability of ca! scading failures in the multi-cell pack.

The organisation has so apart introduced twin products from this platform:

• Sonata cells for cover as good as unstable appetite applications. The Sonata cells suggest 3x - 5x longer battery make use of hold up than competitors in this market. In March 2009, Boston-Power became the primary US-based firm to yield batteries to the Tier One cover Personal Computer vendor: HP.

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

  • Energy trust of 180Wh/kg
  • Volumetric trust of 420Wh/L
  • 1,000+ cycles during 100% Depth Of Discharge (DOD)
  • 2,000+ cycles during 90% DOD
  • Constant appetite of 440W/kg
  • Pulse appetite of 1,500 W/kg (2s pulse)
  • Flexible as good as scalable packaging
  • Excellent thermal properties
  • Nordic Ecolabel as good as Chinese EPA CEC Ecolabel accreditation for chemical carry out during production as good as in the final product
  • UL, UN, as good as ROHS certifications

Boston-Power intends to dominance the experience from the Portable Power courtesy in to Transportation. Boston-Power cells have been in mass progression now in the production comforts in Asia, with the capacity to scale to millions of cells per month. (The organisation says it has had zero domain failures so far.)