Sanyo

Suzuki has been testing its e-Let's electric scooter around its hometown of Hamamatsu for the past year and is now ready to send it out into the real world. Or, at least, the Japanese portion of the real world. While it doesn't have the kind of range that would prompt you to pen a letter home ...

Ikuo Hanawa, as part of the "Team Yokohama EV Challenge," has participated in the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb (PPIHC) for the third year running with record-smashing results. His latest time of 12:20.084 shaved a whopping 57 seconds off last year's result. Fitted with about 37 kWhs of ...

According to the Japanese newspaper Nikkei, Panasonic will ramp up its lithium-ion battery production in China in an effort to reduce manufacturing costs by approximately 30 percent. Panasonic wants to retain its position among the world's top lithium-ion battery manufacturers through cost ...

Recently, a group of students at Japan's Okayama Sanyo High School unveiled an electric car that could whiz down the road for approximately 50 miles on a single charge. The meager distance it can cover between charges ...

Back in August, Sanyo Electric Co., a common name in the rechargeable battery industry, completed construction of its Kasai Plant, a lithium-ion automotive battery production facility in Hyogyo prefecture, Japan. The factory is currently capable of cranking out up to ...

Back in August, Sanyo Electric Co. completed construction of a new lithium-ion production facility that's capable of cranking out up to one million automotive battery cells per month. The plant, located in Hyogo prefecture, Japan, will handle the vast majority of ...

Intensifying price competition from South Korean battery manufacturers has driven Sanyo Electric Co. and GS Yuasa Corp. to dissolve their long-standing lithium-ion battery joint venture (JV). According to a joint announcement, the liquidation of the Sanyo GS Soft Energy Co. JV was inevitable as the ...

Sanyo Electric Co., a common name in the rechargeable battery industry, has completed construction of its new production facility for lithium-ion automotive batteries. The li-ion facility is located on the grounds of the company's Kasai Plant in Hyogo prefecture, ...

The plug-in aficionados of the Japan Electric Vehicle Club hit the track this weekend in a Daihatsu Mira Van with a 74 kilowatt-hour lithium ion battery to see how far they could go on a charge. The last time the crew attempted this, in November 2009, they managed to squeeze out 345 miles before ...

After supplying batteries for the record-breaking Mira EV (pictured), Sanyo had little choice but to follow it up with something big. So that's just what they did. This time around, the project is more about future plans than 300-plus mile journeys, but the goal is still quite monumental. Sanyo ...