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U.S. automakers and Johnson Controls to jointly produce hybrid vehicle batteries

Today, most hybrid vehicles are sold with batteries designed and manufactured in Japan. Toyota gets most of its batteries from a joint venture with Panasonic, which also supplies batteries to Honda for its Civic hybrid. Sanyo provides the batteries for the Ford Escape hybrid and its variants, as well as the Honda Accord hybrid. American manufacturers would like a piece of this market as well, and Johnson Controls, the largest maker of automotive lead-acid batteries, is partnering up with U.S. automakers to do just that. Klaus Brandt, executive ... Read more →

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