GM Sees Battery Integration As Key to Future Hybrids

WARREN, MI – General Motors Corp. has stressed that advanced lithium-ion batteries will be key to bringing to market next-generation hybrid-electric vehicles such as the Chevrolet Volt concept.

However, it is the integration of these Li-ion batteries and the fine-tuning of the systems that govern them that is at the core of the auto maker’s current focus.

“(The battery) system is ...