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Ricardo announces Battery Systems Development Center in Detroit

Posted on March 21, 2008

Filed under: Emerging Technologies, EV/Plug-in, USAThere is much more to building complete battery packs for electric cars and hybrids than most people think about. Sure, cells are available - they are powering the laptop that this story is being written on. Just ask Tesla about taking a few thousand of those batteries and turning them into a unit capable of powering an electric car. To help turn those loose cells into usable battery packs, power-train engineering consultant Ricardo has created a new Battery Systems Development Center in Detroit. This group of 32 people will work to create tur...

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