In an order on behalf of vehicle manufacturers of electric cars before the war kicked off, the battery manufacturers already ready.
Last week, Japan’s largest industrial electronics group Hitachi has already announced plans to expand its hybrid vehicle lithium-ion compaq evo n410 battery production capacity target is by 2015 to expand production capacity 70 times to cover the annual 700,000 hybrid electric vehicle demand (each hybrid cars are usually equipped with a 30 ~ 50 lithium-ion battery), costs 20 billion to 300 billion yen. In the autumn of this year before the initial production capacity Hitachi plans to widen to more than 600%.
At the same time, has always been considered in the new energy vehicles in the market lags behind Europe and the United States on the Japanese car maker, is also the field of compaq laptop battery technology can not have any slack.
Not long ago, America’s leading supplier of automotive batteries, one of Johnson Controls and energy storage solutions provider, Shuai-fu was a joint venture of Johnson Controls – Shuai Fu had announced plans to set up its first production in the United States for the hybrid vehicle lithium-ion compaq evo n600 battery processing plant. Plant will be based on the original transformed plant is expected to cost around 220 million U.S. dollars transformation, the initial production capacity will reach 15 million lithium-ion batteries.
The reason why the car compaq evo n400c battery technology, has invested heavily on the one hand is the new energy sources has become a global topic for all countries in promoting the industrialization of new energy vehicles process; the other hand, battery technology as the core area of hybrid and electric cars , “Who is the first breakthrough in battery technology, who may become a future automotive industry, the overlord.” Automotive Safety and Energy, State Key Laboratory Ouyang Ming Gao told CBN reporter.
It is reported that Hitachi has received General Motors to produce 100,000 hybrid cars lithium-ion compaq evo n400 battery under the orders from General Motors plans to sell these cars next year.
Johnson Controls – Shuai Fu will also get the BMW 7 Series Active Hybrid cars (expected in 2010 listed), Azure Dynamic hybrid electric commercial vehicle of the Balance Project (expected in 2010 listed), and Ford’s first plug-in hybrid electric vehicle ( expected to be available in 2012) supply lithium compaq evo n410c battery hybrid power systems.
Moreover, Hitachi will also be two kinds of large-scale production for the next generation of hybrids using new lithium-ion batteries.