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

22 Feb 2010

Li-ion manufacturer Boston-Power, Inc., announced which former GM senior manager Robert C. Purcell, Jr. has assimilated its board of directors. Working closely with Boston-Power’s senior manager group as well as fellow board members, Purcell is applying his expertise in battery electric vehicles (BEVs) as well as plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) to help drive a deployment of Boston-Powers batteries into a travel sector.

From 1994 to 2002, Purcell led a GM Advanced Technology Vehicles Group (GM ATV). GM ATV was obliged for a growth as well as prolongation of a GM EV-1; his classification also grown as well as constructed a S-10 Electric Truck as well as grown a GM Precept Hybrid Vehicle, which was part of President Clintons Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles (PNGV) program. In further to his responsibilities during GM ATV, he also served as authority of a GM-Ovonic Advanced Battery Joint Venture.

Purcell now serves as founder as well as president of Purcell & Associates, LLC, a senior advisory group specializing in modernized automotive as well as pick appetite investment projects. His clients have enclosed companies trimming from MidAmerican Energy Holdings, a Berkshire Hathaway Company, to EDC Automotive, an emerging personality in automotive thermal government systems.

Boston-Power is bringing to a travel attention a game-changing lithium-ion battery which delivers unmatched levels of tall appetite density, safety, low cost, fast charge as well as environmental sustainability. As a colonize in a electrification of transportation, Bob Purcell brings a perfect mixed of invaluable! insight s, real-world experiences, as well as an established, international senior manager network to a company. Were thrilled to add him to a team.

Ive been seeking for a battery like Boston-Powers for 20 years. we knew immediately upon assembly a group as well as reviewing a record platform which we wanted to fool around a role within a company. In further to being in mass prolongation as well as embodying a right mixed of capabilities in conditions of lengthened range, weight as well as space, safety, price as well as quick recharge, Boston-Powers batteries have been a only ones to earn stringent certifications for environmental sustainability. Theyre already being well perceived by a auto attention as well as Im confident they will be adopted for a operation of vehicles by manufacturers around a world.

Boston-Power technology. Boston-Powers battery record platform is formed upon a flat, oval-shaped prismatic dungeon pattern with external measure homogeneous to dual conventional 18650 lithium-ion cells. Boston-Power now uses cobalt as well as manganese upon a cathode with graphite upon a anode. Each dungeon incorporates multiple, eccentric reserve inclination located in opposite areas of a cell. The pattern of each reserve component is optimized eccentric of a alternative components, as well as a distributed place eliminates neglected interactions in between them.

One of a reserve inclination is a integrated Current Interrupt Device (CID), which electrically disconnects a dungeon if inner pressures get too high. In addition, a dungeon can is constructed from aluminum, supporting a low vigour pattern which allows reserve components to activate earlier, minimizing a possibility which a dungeon will enter thermal runaway. The activation vigour as well as tolerances of each of a components have been designed to prevent inadvertent activation. In addition, there have been dual vents upon a side of a can for redundancy, minimizing a possibility of ca! scading failures in a multi-cell pack.

The association has so distant introduced dual products from this platform:

• Sonata cells for cover as well as unstable energy applications. The Sonata cells offer 3x – 5x longer battery use hold up than competitors in this market. In Mar 2009, Boston-Power became a initial US-based firm to provide batteries to a Tier One cover PC vendor: HP.

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

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

Boston-Power intends to precedence its experience from a Portable Power attention into Transportation. Boston-Power cells have been in mass prolongation currently in its production facilities in Asia, with a capacity to scale to millions of cells per month. (The association says it has had zero margin failures so far.)

In 2009, Boston-Power grown a Ford Escape plug-in demonstrator equipped with a 12 kWh pack. In Dec 2009, a association became part of a Swedish electric automobile coalition determined to drive a enrichment of tall opening electric vehicles. (Earlier post.) In further to Boston-Power, participating organizations embody Saab; Electroengine (electric powertrain); Innovatum (project management); as well as Power Circle (Swedens electric power in! dustry t rade organization).

Prior to a announcement of his appointment, Purcell told Green Car Congress which while most of a OEMs have comparison a source for their initial program, few of them have been fixedToyota being during least a single important exceptionin conditions of vital battery supply.

What we am you do is providing a set of introductions to a right people around a attention who have been meddlesome in seeking during pick batteries. What we like about Boston-Power…I really believe they made a most appropriate set of tradeoffs in conditions of a battery systems. It is tall appetite firmness in conditions of a basic chemistry of a battery, they have packaged it in a way which they can precedence a volume base they have already created in conditions of unstable power. They have finished an outstanding job, in my opinion, in reserve design…They have a most appropriate possibility of actually flourishing a automotive application for a lifecycle of a vehicle.

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