Todd MacKintosh

About Todd MacKintosh

Thirty years of experience in the automotive battery industry focused on enabling vehicle electrification. Battery experience includes manufacturing, product design, validation, dangerous goods transport regulations, standards development and business development. Recognized global leader in lithium battery technology and standards development.GM Technical Fellow for battery performance engineering, responsible for managing rechargeable energy storage system (RESS) requirements, regulatory strategies, standard work, and process of engineering covering advanced engineering projects through production programs.Subject matter expert for UN 38.3, responsible for corporate regulatory summaries and advisories, interpreting test issues and results, and creating UN38.3 Test summary reports. o Established internal procedures for certifying UN38.3 compliance. o Authored and supported proposals at United Nations Sub-Committee of Experts for Dangerous Goods to address issues with UN38.3 testing for electric vehicle batteries resulting in changes to UN Manual of Tests and Criteria. o Expert participant at UN Informal Working Group on Lithium Batteries drafting new hazard classification test procedures. Chair of the SAE Battery Transportation and Storage Committee. o Revised SAE J2950 ‘Recommended Practices (RP) for Shipping Transport and Handling of Automotive-Type Battery System - Lithium Ion’ to add model flow chart for determining if a battery is damaged/defective for transportation. o Published SAE J3235 ‘Best Practice for Storage of Li-ion Batteries’. o Published SAE J3303 ‘Lithium and Lithium-Ion Cell and Battery Containment Performance Recommended Practice”Former Chair of the SAE task force ‘Hybrid and EV Recommendations for First and Second Responders’. o Successfully recruited a diverse task force of auto OEM’s, suppliers and responders which led to the publication of SAE J2990, ‘Hybrid and EV Recommended Practice for First and Second Responders’.o ISO TC22/WG7 expert developing standards for emergency response guides and propulsion identification.SAE G27 Committee key contributor and writing team member for SAE AS6413 ‘Performance Based Package Standard for Lithium Batteries as Cargo on Aircraft’Appointed by US Department of Transportation to serve as a Manufacturer of Vehicles Representative Member on its Lithium Battery Air Safety Advisory Committee.(20••••25)

Experience

1. Technical Fellow Rechargeable Energy Storage Systems

   General Motors

   Feb 2025 — Present

Education

• Miami University

  Bachelor's degree, Manufacturing Engineering

  1991 — 1995

• University of Michigan

  Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Energy Systems Engineering

  2010 — 2012

Skills

• Hev
• Program Management
• Automotive
• Siemens Nx
• Six Sigma
• Vehicles
• Engineering Management
• Powertrain
• Gd&T
• Continuous Improvement
• Lean Manufacturing
• Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing
• Unigraphics
• Product Development
• Design for Manufacturing
• Spc
• Lithium-Ion Batteries
• Ppap
• Manufacturing Engineering
• Shainin
• Automotive Engineering
• Design Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (Dfmea)
• Apqp
• Fmea
• Electric Vehicles
• Root Cause Analysis
• Value Stream Mapping
• Design of Experiments
• Manufacturing
• Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (Fmea)
• Batteries
• Engineering
• Hazardous Materials
• Start-Ups
• Statistical Process Control (Spc)
• Kaizen
• Testing
• Dfmea