It was 1992 and it’s called the US Advanced Battery Consortium. https://www.uscar.org/guest/teams/12/U-S-Advanced-Battery-Consortium-LLC
Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 18, 2019, at 9:44 PM, brucedp5 via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > [ref > http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/Oil-utilities-buying-up-EVSE-net-charging-fossil-buy-in-tp4692843p4692874.html > ] > > David said> ... Ovshinsky's cashing out to GM ... < > > https://www.google.com/search?q=nimh+ovshinsky+sold+gm > ... Ovshinsky ... decision to sell to GM had been naive ... > > Long before the internet > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet#Rise_of_the_global_Internet_(late_1980s/early_1990s_onward) > I would read through tons of paper media on Ovshinsky's efforts to make > Ovonic (NiMH baterry) a success. > > I differ from Willie, IMO, ALL automakers & oil/fossil were in cahoots to > maintain their incessant ice profit orgy (not just GM, though they are the > worst). > > (section of Willie's page link) > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_encumbrance_of_large_automotive_NiMH_batteries#General_Motors_and_the_US_Auto_Battery_Consortium > ... Ovshinsky stated that in the early 1990s, the auto industry created the > US Auto Battery Consortium (USABC) to stifle the development of electric > vehicle technology by preventing the dissemination of knowledge about > Ovshinky's battery-related patents to the public through the California Air > Resources Board (CARB). > > According to Ovshinsky, the auto industry falsely suggested that NiMH > technology was not yet ready for widespread use in road cars. Members of the > USABC, including General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler, threatened to take > legal action against Ovshinsky if he continued to promote NiMH's potential > for use in BEVs, and if he continued to lend test batteries to Solectria, a > start-up electric vehicle maker that was not part of the USABC. The Big > Three car companies argued that his behavior violated their exclusive rights > to the battery technology, because they had matched a federal government > grant given to Ovonics to develop NiMH technology. Critics argue that the > Big Three were more interested in convincing CARB members that electric > vehicles were not technologically and commercially viable. > > In 1994, General Motors acquired a controlling interest in Ovonics's battery > development and manufacture, including patents controlling the manufacture > of large NiMH batteries. The original intent of the equity alliance was to > develop NiMH batteries for GM's EV1 BEV. Sales of GM-Ovonics batteries were > later taken over by GM manager and critic of CARB John Williams, leading > Ovshinsky to wonder whether his decision to sell to GM had been naive. The > EV1 program was shut down by GM before the new NiMH battery could be > commercialized, despite field tests that indicated the Ovonics battery > extended the EV1's range to over 150 miles ... > > Darryl cynicism is warranted. Though we (the public) can't do much about it, > we should keep our eye of those fat-profit-takers, and scream bloody murder > (on the internet) when they step out of line. > > > > > For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: > http://evdl.org/archive/ > > > {brucedp.neocities.org} > > -- > Sent from: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/ > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20190219/4e6769a3/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
