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GM charges ahead with electric car
By Bernard Simon in Toronto and John Reed in London
Published in FT.com: June 6 2007 03:00 | Last updated: June 6 2007 03:00

General Motors has taken another step towards putting its Chevrolet Volt electric car on the road by choosing suppliers of a rechargeable lithium-ion battery to power the vehicle.
The carmaker announced contracts yesterday with subsidiaries of South Korea's LG Chem and Continental of Germany for the batteries - the biggest challenge.

GM has staked its reputation as a leader in alternative-car technology on the Volt after a controversial decision to abandon an earlier electric model, known as the EV1, in the late 1990s.

Rick Wagoner, chief executive, told the annual meeting yesterday that the company was significantly expanding and accelerating its "commitment to electrically driven vehicles, like the Chevy Volt".
Much of the Volt programme is secret. Nick Zielinski, the car's chief engineer, said in a posting on a GM blog last week: "We can't tell you where it's going to be built just yet. But we can tell you we will be building it."
A concept version was unveiled at the Detroit auto show in January. GM has promised that the electric motor will have a range of at least 40 miles. The battery would be recharged from a variety of sources, including a normal power plug, a small combustion engine or, possibly, a hydrogen fuel cell. GM awarded contracts earlier this year to Michigan-based Cobasys, North America's only maker of hybrid-vehicle batteries, and Johnson Controls, a big auto parts maker, to developlithium-ion batteries for a hybrid plug-in version of its Saturn Vue crossover. A123Systems, a Boston-based lithium-ion battery developer, will be involved in the Vue and Volt programmes.
In another sign of the changing scene for alternative cars, Honda will discontinue the hybrid petrol-electric version of its Accord saloon this year.
David Iida, a spokesman, said: "We feel that hybrid technology to improve fuel economy can be most effectively used with small cars". Honda would continue to produce a hybrid version of its Civic car, and planned a hybrid vehicle smaller than the Civic for 2009.

Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2007