so my company's VP of Systems Engineering is chatting on this TV show about the state of Lithium Ion and hybrid vehicles... Here is a link to the show and if you miss it, I believe you can watch these shows on their sites after it has aired on TV: http://www.autolinedetroit.tv/show/1130

Okay, so this is quite a bit old, but still.... I don't think I blogged it last time... Saft, which is a French company will be supplying Lion Batteries to BAE Systems, which is one the biggest Miliatry Contractors out there to the US. I believe my company had bid on the project, but I have no idea really as I am not involved with either the bidding process or sales process. Either way, it is a bummer we didn't get in on this program... considering Cobasys after all is an American compan...

Well, I wish I got the pay that went with being a rock star! It is one of the reasons I joined Cobasys back in 2001 (at the time Ovonic Battery Company). It was to work with new technology and be part of something that can help humanity as a whole. I could also at the time, honestly say I was one of probably less than 1000 people in the world working on this type of stuff. Now it is probably more like 10,000, but still when you consider that is out of the billions of people in the wor...

So I am following this discussion over at Link , which a coworker showed me and I was wondering if anyone else out there, not from that site, thinks it is a conspiracy or not.

With the debate for Governor of Michigan last night, this morning's news article highlighting a new Hybrid Energy Development center in Troy, MI will really help Granholm out. As one of the few American owned, operated and manufactured in the good ole US of A, Cobasys stands out as an achievement in Michigan. I joined the Ovonic Battery Company, when there were only about 6 engineers working on the system level design side of things and when we tranfered from Ovonic to the newly formed ...

Well, This article by the Detroit Free Press confirms the actions taken resulting from previous internal Ford memo made public. They are outsourcing more and more work to Mexico. Not like it isn't unknown, but now it is more public that it used to be. Way to go internet!

Warning, the External link is to a PDF file. Yes, for the past 1.5 years of my working life, I have been involved with the design of the battery pack, from Link , I can now finally brag about (some). Cobasys is supplying the NiMH battery pack for the 2006 Green Line Saturn Vue. Our competition.... Panasonic and Sanyo, which are some biggies. Of course, some may argue that there is such a big demand right now, that the two biggies are not big enough to supply the demand right now, but...