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Pike Research forecasts accelerating hybrid locomotive sales from 2015-2020

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Hybrid electric locomotive sales will have an increasing presence in global rail markets between 2015 and 2020, according to a new report from Pike Research. During that period, hybrid locomotive sales will increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19.4% This would translate into a need for storage of 116.4

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Report: Hitachi to Boost Li-Ion Battery Output to Support 700,000 Hybrids/Year by 2015; GM Orders Cells for 100,000 Hybrids

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will spend an estimated ¥20-30 billion (US$207-310 million) to boost production capacity for lithium-ion batteries for hybrid light-duty vehicles, targeting a 70-fold increase by 2015. Hitachi has already received orders for enough lithium ion batteries for 100,000 hybrid autos that General Motors Corp. Earlier post.).

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Report: Toyota To Launch Lithium-Ion Prius Minivan Hybrid In Early 2011

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will introduce a new Prius minivan equipped with Li-ion batteries early next year—the first of a coming rollout of hybrids equipped with Li-ion packs. A hybrid vehicle that Toyota plans to introduce around 2015 will also offer a choice between the two batteries. The Nikkei reports that Toyota Motor Corp.

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Lux: 48 V micro-hybrid market will pass 7M vehicles in 2024; promising for LTO Li-ion batteries

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According to a new forecast by Lux Research, the likely 48 V micro-hybrid market will exceed 7 million vehicles in 2024, with the first adoption year beginning in 2015 and more focused on premium vehicles, in which cost sensitivity in order to reach regulation targets without sacrificing performance is lower. Click to enlarge.

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Toyota to introduce 10 new electrified vehicles in China by 2020; PHEV Corolla and Levin unveiled at Beijing Motor Show

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Toyota Motor plans to introduce to the Chinese market plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) versions of its Corolla and Levin passenger cars in 2019 and a battery electric vehicle (BEV) model based on its C-HR / IZOA compact SUV in 2020. (To To be sold in China as a C-HR by GAC Toyota Motor Co., and as an IZOA by FAW Toyota Motor Sales Co.,

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Sumitomo Metal Mining to boost production of NCA for Li-ion batteries by 38%; targeting Tesla Model 3

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To meet earlier demand for batteries for the Model S, in 2014, SMM ramped up production of lithium nickel oxide from 300 tons per month to 850 tons; that subsequently expanded in 2015 to the current 1,850 tons per month. SMM is the only refiner of E-nickel and cobalt in Japan.

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Forecast: Lithium Ion Batteries for Electric Vehicles to Approach $8 Billion in Sales by 2015

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According to a new report from Pike Research, a rapidly growing global market for electrified vehicles—particularly plug-in hybrid and battery-electric vehicles—will create a Li-ion transportation battery industry with nearly $8 billion in sales worldwide by 2015, up from $878 million in 2010.