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The Electric Car: American Industry and Innovation
11/19/2009
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Animated Open
2 Antonio on Camera
On Camera Open:
Hi, I’m Antonio Neves for the Dot
News. This right here is a battery
cell. And it could change the way
people around the world power
their cars.
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3 GM Factory
Voice Over: Inside each cell,
stored chemical energy is turned
into electrical power.
They are being used to build a
new generation of batteries
which can power anything from
delivery trucks, to automobiles,
to scooters.
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4 Denise Gray on Camera
Gray
We start off with a cell. And we
will arrange those and to kind of
group them together and we’ll
call those into modules and then
you may have several of those
modules put together to give you
the entire battery pack.
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5 GM Modules/Factory
Voice Over:
Denise Gray is in charge of
battery development for General
Motors. Her lab is analyzing the
technology needed to make
electric vehicles practical. One
breakthrough is the use of dry
cell batteries made of Lithium…
used today in cell phones and
portable computers.
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6 Denise Gray on Camera
Gray
Lithium gives me more energy in
the same small package. And
that’s what makes it very
attractive because I can get
more energy out of a battery to
move the car down the street.
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Voice Over:
In electric vehicles, the fuel is
electricity stored in a battery. It
provides power to one or more
electric motors.
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8 Recharging Station
Voice Over:
And like all batteries, they need
to be recharged. This fall a
convention was held in Detroit to
examine ways to get electricity
into the batteries of the new
generation of electric vehicles.
The electricity is generated back
at power plants. Often they
struggle to meet demand.
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9 Michael Delaney on Camera
Michael Delaney
We have to build our system //
for the hottest day here in the
summer in Southeast Michigan.
We have to have enough
capacity for our generation, our
trans