Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2010

Toshiba positions the SCiB as a new business with promising long term growth potential—and one that is already showing its versatility, as the SCiB has already been selected for an electric bicycle, an electric motorcycle, and as part of the power storage in a microgrid system. Earlier post.).

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Mitsubishi Li-ion Lithium Ion Battery 191

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2009

The initial capacity of 500,000 cells a month is expected to rise when the automotive application market takes off in fiscal year 2011, allowing the plant to achieve significant cost reductions through mass production. Toshiba positions the SCiB as a new business with promising long term growth potential.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

And, you have to recognize that they pull a hell of a lot of power through the local grid: there will come a time when we will see utility transformers popping from all the current being drawn (imagine just a few dozen EVs fast-charging simultaneously, on 480V at 500A: wow). I would prefer to recharge at home, and could do so.

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Charging Battery Batteries 2009 38