Green Car Congress
JUNE 11, 2009
Although Toyota has been working on Li-ion batteries for strong hybrids, and has had 126 Priuses equipped with Li-ion packs on the road for the past three years, NiMH cost performance wins compared to lithium for this application, Kuroda said. The new Prius is in competition with the Honda Insight. Akira Kuroda.
Green Car Congress
MAY 11, 2009
Insight sales in Japan from launch. Honda’s Insight ( earlier post ) ranked as the best-selling car among all new vehicle registrations in Japan in April—excluding mini-vehicles with displacement of less than 660cc—with sales of 10,481 units, according to data from the Japan Automobile Dealers Association.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 8, 2010
Layout of the system components in the Fit Hybrid. has begun sales in Japan of a newly refreshed Fit (Jazz in other markets) model together with the all-new Fit Hybrid, a new addition to the Fit lineup. The Fit Hybrid will be offered at the starting price of ¥1.59 liter i-VTEC engine as its dedicated hybrid model sibling.
Green Car Congress
MAY 7, 2014
Batteries for hybrids and plug-in vehicles are growing fast, more than tripling over the past three years to reach 1.4 Hybrids demanded 481 MWh of batteries in Q1 2014, while electric vehicles called for 774 MWh. Adoption of hybrids also varies widely: Japanese consumers bought more than three times as many hybrids as U.S.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 6, 2013
In a project co-funded by the US Department of Energy and managed by Ecotality North America, the Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium (ALABC) has demonstrated the durability of lead-carbon batteries in the high-rate, partial state-of-charge operation of a hybrid electric vehicle. The UltraBattery Retrofit Project DP1.8
Green Car Congress
MARCH 2, 2009
Of that 10% improvement, about 6% can be attributed to the new hybrid system (including the larger combustion engine) and about 4% to efficiency improvements in other aspects of the vehicle, such as better aerodynamics, said Chief Engineer Akihiko Otsuka. Hybrid Synergy Drive. Click to enlarge. Battery pack.
Green Car Congress
MAY 14, 2009
The new factory is expected to come onstream by the end of fiscal 2010, with capacity to produce enough lithium-ion batteries for more than 100,000 standard hybrid vehicles in fiscal 2011. Sanyo’s nickel hydride battery is installed in the Insight hybrid of Honda Motor Co. Sanyo Electric Co. 7267) and vehicles of Ford Motor Co.
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