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Continental Automotive to Begin Series Production of Li-Ion Packs in 2008
30 December 2007
Continental Automotive will begin series production of automotive lithium-ion packs in 2008, according to CEO Manfred Wennemer in an interview with auto motor und sport.
It will not be a hundred thousand units a year, but certainly a few thousand.... This is the battery of the future: for both full- and mild-, as well as plug-in hybrid drive and pure electric cars.
—CEO Manfred Wennemer
In addition to being one of the providers to GM for battery packs for the Volt (earlier post), Continental is also a development partner with VW and Daimler. Wennemer declined to name customers for the batteries.
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Posted by: | December 30, 2007 at 10:48 AM
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Continental gets their cells from A123 and subsequently they are responsible for their packing and integration with the rest of the electric components in the vehicle. The new thing in this announcement is that they apparently work with other potential customers than GM Volt with regard to these lithium batteries. It is also new that they expect to do several thousands packs in 2008. This sounds like more than any other announcements made apart from Smiths vehicles and it means cars or buses with A123 cells for sale in 2008! It is also new that they will do the full spectrum of battery packs for hybrids, PHEV and pure electric.
This announcement adds to my hope that 2008 will be a year where most of the large vehicle producers will announce their wholehearted intention to bring HEV, PHEVs and/or EVs to the market within a few years and no later than 2012.
Posted by: Henrik | December 30, 2007 at 12:54 PM
By 2012 it will be compete or die.
Posted by: Lucas | December 30, 2007 at 02:12 PM
"Continental gets their cells from A123"
At least they do for the volt project - do they have any other battery sources that we know about?
Posted by: AES | December 31, 2007 at 12:31 PM
I think Peugeot/Citroen might be the other party receiving the LiIon cells.
Or Mercedes - both have announced lithium-ion packs to be used in their forthcoming new hybrids.
Posted by: clett | January 03, 2008 at 02:40 AM
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This seems to be one more serious large scale producer capable of producing various battery pack sizes for Hybrids, PHEVs and BEVs.
Apparently, there are about 35 producers on board, now or in the very near future. All these activites are good for future PHEVs and BEVs.
Can we assume that current Hybrids will be upgraded to PHEVs when theses batteries become available at an affordable price?