[ausev] Series Hybrid Plug In Details

[Charles Birkhead]

Based on past GM marketing history, I consider that this vehicle is
vaporware.  In the 1960's, GM showed a hydrogen powered vehicle which
they said would be available in ten years.  It did not.  Next was the
EV1 which GM said no one wanted.  Then we have the hybrid GM pickup.

I consider this another example of GM's 'smoke and mirrors'.


-----Original Message-----
From: ausev-bounces at austinev.org [mailto:ausev-bounces at austinev.org] On
Behalf Of Mark Farver
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 7:56 AM
To: AustinEV News Announcements and General Discussion
Subject: Re: [ausev] Series Hybrid Plug In Details

Marc Kohler wrote:
>  The battery pack's volume is 100 
> L, one-third as much as the lead-acid batteries 
> in GM's 1990s-issue electric car, the EV1. GM's 
> targeted maximum weight for the pack is 180 
> kilograms (400 pounds). 
It is interesting that they compare the LiOH specs against the Lead Acid

EV1.  The NiMH EV1 had a battery pack of close to the same volume as the

Lead Acid version, but got a 120 mile range.   So for 1/3 the volume, 
they get 1/3 the Range on Lithium. Lithium will look good for weight,  
but I wonder why GM is struggling with a technology they (and no other 
car manufacturer) has experience with instead of going with their 
excellent NiMH technology.  (Even sold to Texaco, I assume GM kept a 
license to the Ovoinics technology)

Mark
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