GM's Test Lab is putting their EV Batteries Through the Ringer

The recent problem of unscrupulous online vape and flashlight sellers installing raw lithium-ion cells into their products with the expectation that consumers will replace these cells themselves is making the problem worse. It is a situation that LG Chem is addressing with full-page newspaper advertisements and a dedicated web site reminding consumers that bare lithium-ion cells are not consumer battery products that are safe to use on their own.

LG Chem is General Motors’ partner in a planned $2.3 billion conversion of the Lordstown, Ohio assembly plant into a battery plant to supply GM’s planned wave of EV models. Those EVs will come from GM’s Detroit-Hamtramck plant, which it has announced will undergo a $2.2 billion conversion to produce only electric vehicles, starting with an electric pickup truck such as the GMC Hummer in late 2021…