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Renault-Nissan announces location of lithium battery plant in Portugal

Renault and Nissan made it known many months ago that they intended to build lithium ion battery plants in Europe to supply all of the electric vehicles that they will be introducing in the next several years. The first battery plant will be going to Portugal and will be located at an existing Renault complex 155 miles north of Lisbon. The plant will have an initial capacity of supplying packs for 50,000 vehicles a year from 2012. The alliance partners will spend €160 Million on the battery plant and create 200 new jobs. The ... Read more →

Automotive Energy Supply Corp starts pilot production of batteries

Automotive Energy Supply Corporation has kicked off pilot production of lithium ion batteries. For those who have not been paying enough attention, AESC is the joint venture between Nissan and NEC ...

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 ...

LG Chem starts construction of new battery plant in South Korea

South Korean battery maker LG Chem is getting prepared to supply lithium ion cells General Motors for production of the Chevrolet Volt by building a new cell manufacturing facility. The company broke ...

Renault-Nissan announces location of lithium battery plant in Portugal 12 days ago on Autoblog Green

Renault and Nissan made it known many months ago that they intended to build lithium ion battery plants in Europe to supply all of the electric vehicles that they will be introducing in the next several years. The first battery plant will be going to Portugal and will be located at an existing ...

Automotive Energy Supply Corp starts pilot production of batteries 5 months ago on Autoblog Green

Automotive Energy Supply Corporation has kicked off pilot production of lithium ion batteries. For those who have not been paying enough attention, AESC is the joint venture between Nissan and NEC that is developing batteries for electric and hybrid batteries. The first AESC production line is ...

Hitachi to multiply lithium battery production by a factor of 70! 5 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 ...

LG Chem starts construction of new battery plant in South Korea 6 months ago on Autoblog Green

South Korean battery maker LG Chem is getting prepared to supply lithium ion cells General Motors for production of the Chevrolet Volt by building a new cell manufacturing facility. The company broke ground for the new plant in Cheongwon earlier this week and the facility is expected to be running ...



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