A123 batteries to be used in SAIC vehicles, including Roewe’s
American battery producer, A123, have won a lucrative contract with SAIC to supply them with batteries for a forthcoming vehicle. A123 vice president, Jason Forcier, SAIC are planning to use them in a new vehicle, which CCT is guessing is the Roewe E1 concept or a plugin electric Roewe 550.
From NY Post
A123 Systems ofMassachusettssaid Tuesday that its lithium-ion batteries were going into a new subcompact electric sedan to be introduced in 2012 by SAIC Motor, among the largest automakers in China.
In addition to producing cars in joint ventures with General Motors and Volkswagen, SAIC owns the Britain-derived Rover brand, and markets cars in China under the Roewe name. The new all-electric five-passenger sedan is part of a Roewe-branded introduction that includes the 750 hybrid (planned for late 2011) and the 550 plug-in hybrid (late 2012, after the battery electric car).
According to Jason Forcier, vice president of the A123 automotive solutions group, the new electric car will have an approximately 20-kilowatt-hour battery pack and a 100-mile range. He declined to offer a production target, but said it would be thousands of vehicles. The electric car, he said, will be built on an existing chassis, but with a new body design.
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The Hybrid Vehicles/Cars should use a direct drive microturbine generators instead to recharge their batteries for extended range instead of an ordinary vehicle ICE engines as the turbine generator is 300% more efficient and the turbine could also use alternative hybrid fuel such HHO “on demand basis only” via electrolysis of water with the excess electrical energy when the turbine is generating electricity to recharge its batteries just like ordinary ICE Vehicles’ Alternators.
Scientific R&D for all vocations needed the best available ideas in the known technologies’ combinations to achieve the best results in reaching the most efficient goals of a Hybrid Car such as SAIC EVs or BYD-DM Hybrid EVs and in other Hybrid EVs to gain entry into the Market by reducing costs and sale prices.