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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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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. Weve kept the summary table below generally up-to-date for passenger PHEVs, but not for BEVs, motorcycles or larger vehicles like buses and trucks. Several dozen prototypes on 15-passenger van since 2004; now in second generation development; no production plans.

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