In the news: GM heralded this plant as a model for its electric car future. Then its batteries started exploding.
Jeff Sakamoto explains how battery fires like what GM experience with the Bolt happened, and how future batteries could avoid these issues. Sakamoto is an associate professor of mechanical engineering, associate professor of materials science and engineering and associate professor of macromolecular science and engineering.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/12/30/chevy-bolt-gm/
Photo credit: General Motors employees work on a production line at Orion Assembly in Orion Township, Mich., on July 21. The plant has been closed since August because of problems with the lithium-ion batteries that go into Chevrolet Bolts produced there. (Nic Antaya for The Washington Post)
