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Hitachi to multiply lithium battery production by a factor of 70!

By fall 2010, Hitachi plans increase its production capacity for lithium ion batteries by 600 percent in the first phase of a major expansion. Hitachi will be supplying the batteries for General Motor's second-generation mild hybrid system that debuts late next year for 2011 model year vehicles. GM has placed an order for enough cells to support 100,000 hybrid vehicles a year. Beyond that, Hitachi is planning to ramp up to build cells for 700,000 hybrids a year by 2015, a 70-fold increase from current levels. The expansion and new production ... Read more →

Hitachi develops new high power lithium ion battery Sam Abuelsamid

Hitachi has just announced a new generation of its lithium ion batteries with significantly more specific power than current cells. The new cells have 70 percent more power than current cells and 50 ...

Hitachi Maxell and Subaru working on new lithium battery, boast 20x power improvement Jeremy Korzeniewski

Click above for a high-res gallery of the Subaru R1e News comes by way of the Japanese news resource Nikkei that Hitachi Maxell is currently hard at work on a new lithium-based battery which does ...

Hitachi to multiply lithium battery production by a factor of 70! 4 months ago on Autoblog Green

By fall 2010, Hitachi plans increase its production capacity for lithium ion batteries by 600 percent in the first phase of a major expansion. Hitachi will be supplying the batteries for General Motor's second-generation mild hybrid system that debuts late next year for 2011 model year vehicles. GM ...

Hitachi develops new high power lithium ion battery 6 months ago on Autoblog Green

Hitachi has just announced a new generation of its lithium ion batteries with significantly more specific power than current cells. The new cells have 70 percent more power than current cells and 50 percent more than the next-generation cells that go into production in 2010. The new cells are ...

Hitachi Maxell and Subaru working on new lithium battery, boast 20x power improvement 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click above for a high-res gallery of the Subaru R1e News comes by way of the Japanese news resource Nikkei that Hitachi Maxell is currently hard at work on a new lithium-based battery which does away with the problematic cobalt ingredient. We've gotten pretty used to seeing some very wild claims ...


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