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Denso wants to standardize hybrid components, make batteries

Japanese automotive supplier Denso wants to expands its business of selling components and systems for hybrid and electric powertrains and sees standardization as a way to get there. Toyota is Denso's largest single largest shareholder with 23 percent of the suppliers stock. Denso has been supplying parts like inverters, sensors and electronic control units for many years. Toyota is far and away the global leader in sales of hybrid vehicles and thus enjoys a cost advantage thanks to economies of scale. By offering components based on the ... Read more →

Mitsubishi Fuso delivers hybrid trucks in Europe, getting lithium batteries from SK Energy Sam Abuelsamid

Mitsubishi Fuso is moving full speed ahead in the hybrid truck market. The Japanese truck maker that is 85 percent owned by Daimler recently made the first deliveries of its Canter EcoHybrid in ...

LG Chem to Build $300-Million Advanced EV Battery Plant in Michigan Sam Abuelsamid

A new report is indicating that LG Chem is moving forward with plans to be build a $300 million advanced battery plant in southwest Michigan in the near future. The plant will be used to build ...

Magnetti Marelli signs deal for development and production of batteries Sam Abuelsamid

Magneti Marelli has just signed a deal with Italian battery maker FAAM SpA to cooperate on development and production of lithium ion batteries. Marelli is a parts-making subsidiary of Fiat and the ...

Chevy Volt battery plant location to be announced this week Sam Abuelsamid

Back in January at the Detroit Auto Show, then-CEO Rick Wagoner announced that General Motors would be building the battery packs for the Chevy Volt at a new plant to be located somewhere in ...

Nissan to spend $1 billion on U.S. battery plant, 4 more plants in Europe 4 months ago on Autoblog Green

Nissan was one of the three recipients in the first round of low interest loans through the U.S. Department of Energy's ATVM program along with Ford and Tesla. Nissan will be getting $1.6 billion from the program that will be used to re-tool part of its Smyrna, Tennessee factory to build ...

Ferdinand Porsche Award goes to lithium battery researchers 5 months ago on Autoblog Green

This year's "Professor Ferdinand Porsche Award" has gone to Dipl. Eng. Michael Keller from Temic Automotive Electric Motors GmbH, Berlin, and Prof. Herbert Kohler from Daimler AG, Stuttgart. The pair won the €50,000 prize for their work on lithium ion batteries for automotive applications. ...

BYD ready to supply batteries for Europe and North America 7 months ago on Autoblog Green

Chinese manufacturer BYD has announced talks to supply electric batteries for two European and one North American carmaker. These deals would surely maximize benefits from its proprietary lithium-ion batteries technology, which are made in Shenzhen, China. These batteries are already installed ...

Daimler looking for an extra partner in its lithium battery venture 7 months ago on Autoblog Green

Late last year, Daimler AG announced that it would partner with Evonik for the development and manufacturing of automotive lithium ion batteries. Daimler bought half of Evonik's LiTec battery unit at that time. Now, Daimler is looking to bring in another partner for the project. At this time, its ...

Yamaha Japan introduces three electric bikes: $1,200 for a 42 mile range 9 months ago on Autoblog Green

Yamaha. I hear the name and hope the news is about zippy electric scooters. The truth is, though, that the Japanese manufacturer also builds bicycles, and some of these bicycles have electric motors to assist the person pushing the pedals. This month, the company is releasing three new models, each ...

Nissan-NEC JV to invest for 200,000 Li-ion batteries annually by 2011 10 months ago on Autoblog Green

Nissan and NEC are apparently seeing a lot of potential for their lithium battery joint venture. The Japanese Nikkei is reporting that Automotive Energy Supply Corp. will spend upwards of $1.1 billion on production facilities for lithium ion batteries to be used in hybrid and electric vehicles. The ...

Toshiba wants EV battery business, 3M lithium cells/month in 2010 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

It's looking increasingly likely that plug-in vehicles will not entirely bring America energy independence, at least not in terms of energy storage. The fact that American business over the last couple of years seems to have largely given up on manufacturing in favor of being a service economy ...

Will lithium battery costs ever come down? 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Battery-powered cars have a lot to recommend them, but they still have one major flaw - the batteries! Compared to almost any other energy storage solution, even the best of today's electrochemical batteries still have very low energy density and very high cost. Every major car manufacturer is ...

Video: French electric La BlueCar in action 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

A few months ago we showed you the BlueCar, a prototype made by French company Bolloré and today we've got two videos that provide us more information about it, albeit in French. First of all, the car was just a prototype. So although it was designed by the creator of the Renault Espace ...

An electric car from France using lithium batteries: Le BlueCar 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Let's speak about a French company that makes lithium batteries, called Batscap. A couple of years ago, they introduced at the Geneva Auto Show a benchmark for their energy storage technologies. It was the prototype of a city car, 3.05 meters long (the size of a classic Mini), called the BlueCar. ...


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