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That aggressive target has forced GM to compresslithium battery pack the industry's established timeline for developing a new car by conducting experimental testing on the battery systems crucial to the Volt even as developers push ahead with work on the vehicle's other components.
GM is designing the Volt to run for 40 miles lithium battery packpowered by a 400-pound lithium-ion battery pack that can be recharged at a standard electric outlet when the vehicle is parked. The car will also capture energy from braking like a traditional hybrid and feature an on-board engine that will be used only to send power to the battery.
The Volt marks one of the first attempts to adapt lithium-ion batteries, lithium battery packwidely used in electronics gear such as laptop computers, to power a car, although Toyota is racing ahead with its own work on the same technology.
