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REPORT: Toshiba's SCiB battery will find a home with five automakers

Last month, when Toshiba announced it would build a second plant to produce its lithium titanate Super Charge Batteries (SCiB), no automakers had publicly declared they would use those particular packs. This is still the case. Now, though, if you were to just throw darts at a list of potential automakers who might be putting SCiBs into plug-in vehicles, there's a good chance you'll hit one who's actually going to, if Shoshi Kawatsu, the general manager of the SCiB division, is right. Kowatsu told the Financial Times that "about" five car ... Read more →

Toshiba to build second plant for automotive lithium batteries Sam Abuelsamid

Toshiba, like most other battery manufacturers, has decided that the market for automotive grade lithium ion cells is going to be huge in the next decade. As a result it has decided to build a ...

Team behind Eliica EV to build electric shuttle bus for Japan Jeremy Korzeniewski

We've always been fond of the Eliica (Electric Lithium-Ion Car) eight-wheeled electric car, which was designed and built by researchers of Keio University in Japan a few years back. Seriously, how ...

Toshiba wants EV battery business, 3M lithium cells/month in 2010 Sam Abuelsamid

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 ...

Toshiba's new SCiB battery charges in 5 minutes, releases March 2008 for electric vehicles Lascelles Linton

Toshiba is entering the electric vehicle battery market next March with the release of the Super Charge ion Battery, or SCiB. According to the company press release, the battery charges 90 percent ...


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