Allure of Heading Battery Startup Too Much for Key Figure in GM to Pass Up
Even with the highly anticipated release of the Chevrolet Volt sitting just around the corner, the allure of heading a battery startup simply proved to be too much for one of the Volt’s most influential decision-makers to pass up. Denise Gray, director of global battery systems engineering at General Motors, has announced that she will leave the company on Friday, March 5, to take an unspecified position with an unidentified battery startup in California.
“The opportunity to create and build and plant seeds and mold and shape an organization…I didn’t want to look back and say, ‘I could have, I should have …’ ” said Gray.
Gray was responsible for delivering all “energy battery” systems, used in extended-range electric vehicles like the 2011 Volt and other plug-ins. However with the cleantech revolution firmly underway, startup fever has Gray looking to go after a much larger piece of the pie.
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