The Electric Car Battery War

摘要

There is little in its spare Manhattan headquarters to suggest that Enerl could someday be an industrial power. The office of Charles A. Gassenheimer, a former hedge fund manager installed as CEO in August to shake up Enerl's management, has few props. They include a framed photo of Senator Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) visiting the company's Indianapolis factory, a poster from a charity event called Ball of the Wild, and a white metallic device the size of a book.rnEnerl's future rests on that device, a prototype of a lithium-ion cell that, Gassenheimer hopes, will power fleets of eco-friendly cars. President Barack Obama has set a target of 1 million electric cars on U.S. roads by 2012. "If we are going to meet that goal," Gassenheimer says, "it will require about $40 billion worth of domestically produced batteries."