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Panasonic to use PC batteries to power cars
Japan's Panasonic Corp. has developed a technology that binds together standard lithium-ion battery cells used in laptop personal computers to power electric vehicles, taking aim at growing demand for green cars.The company said that new technology w...
Automotive Energy Supply Co. begins trial production of Li-Ion batteries
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., NEC Corporation, and its subsidiary NEC TOKIN Corporation, today announced that its joint-venture company - Automotive Energy Supply Corporation (AESC) - has begun trial production of advanced lithium-ion batteries for a wide ...
Renault-Nissan plans 4 lithium-ion battery plants in Europe
The Renault-Nissan alliance plans to build up to four factories in Europe over the coming years to produce lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles."In Europe, we haven't made the final decisions, but we will soon," said Colin Dodge, Nissan's exec...
Toyota seeks to boost NiMH battery production capacity 10%
Toyota Motor Corp. wants to expand the production capacity for the NiMH battery packs it uses in hybrids by 10%.The automaker is now seeking access to enough NiMH batteries to equip 1.1 million hybrid cars in 2010, or 10% more than was initially call...
Lithium Energy Japan building second Li-Ion plant for Mitsubishi i MiEV
Lithium Energy Japan, a joint venture between GS Yuasa Corp., Mitsubishi Motors Corp. and Mitsubishi Corp., plans to construct a battery factory in response to Mitsubishi Motors’ plans to boost production of its i MiEV electric vehicle.The joint ve...
Sanyo to build ¥30B plant for automotive Li-Ion batteries
Sanyo Electric Co. will spend about ¥30 billion (US$314 million) to build an automotive lithium-ion battery plant. The new factory is expected to come onstream by the end of fiscal 2010, with capacity to produce enough lithium-ion batteries for more...
Blue Energy begins construction of new plant (株式会社ブルーエナジー 工場の建設を開始)
Blue Energy Co., Ltd., a new joint venture company between GS Yuasa and Honda for the manufacturing, sales and R&D of lithium-ion batteries for hybrid vehicles, today held a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the start of construction of its Osadano...
Toshiba boosts discharge density of SCiB Li-ion battery
The Nikkei reports that Toshiba has improved the discharge density of its SCiB Li-ion battery to 3,900 W/kg. Last year, Toshiba described the development of a 3.0 Ah high-power version of the SCiB with 3,600 W/kg output specifically for hybrid electr...
Blue Energy to start mass production of Li-Ion batteries for new Civic hybrid in spring 2011
The Nikkei reports that Blue Energy Co, the newly-formed joint venture between Honda and GS Yuasa (earlier post) will begin mass-producing high-performance lithium ion batteries for hybrid vehicles in the spring of 2011."This 51-49 joint venture of Y...
Electric vehicles call for redefinition of automobiles
Metal-air battery drawing attentionQ: I'd like to ask about the batteries first.Hirota: Fuel cell vehicles feature longer driving distances and were expected to be commercialized at an early date. However, the introduction of FC vehicles into the mar...
GS Yuasa & Honda to establish Blue Energy Co. for production of Li-Ion batteries for hybrid vehicles (GSユアサとHondaによるハイブリッド車用リチウムイオン電池の新会社設立に向け合弁契約を締結)
TOKYO, Japan, March 24, 2009 - GS Yuasa Corporation and Honda Motor Co., Ltd. today signed a joint venture contract to establish a new joint venture company. Since the signing of a basic agreement in December of last year (earlier post), two companie...
Battery deal sought with EU
Japan will seek an agreement with the European Union to jointly develop solar cells and new ultralight batteries for electric cars that can deliver three times the power of current technology, a Japanese official said Thursday, prior to a meeting tha...
Japan expects automotive Li-Ion battery costs to halve in 1 year
The New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), an independent administrative institution in Japan, submitted March 3, 2009, the final draft of the "2008 Roadmap for the Development of Next Generation Automotive Battery Tech...
Japan to push development of battery technologies (NEDO、蓄電技術開発室を設置)
NEDO, an independent administrative institution in Japan, established March 1, 2009, a new section for conducting integrated and all-around research and development of power storage technologies. NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Developmen...
