The Race to Automate

摘要

Automation plays a key role in mass-producing lithium-ion batteries. When history books are written some day in the future, 2009 will be remembered as the year of the great recession and the year of the battery. Back in January, automakers unveiled a plethora of electric vehicles at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Since then, the Obama administration's economic stimulus program has dangled millions of dollars to entice manufacturers to create a lithium-ion battery manufacturing infrastructure in the United States.