2009 lithium-ion rechargeable battery market will be officially formed. This is because in Japan and overseas car manufacturers have started in the passenger cars on the use of lithium-ion rechargeable battery. Domestic manufacturers in Japan, Toyota Motor, Fuji Heavy Industries, Mitsubishi Motors has decided to adopt, while in Europe and the United States, Daimler also said that adoption. In addition, Nissan, Germany, Audi, General Motors is also prepared to adopt in 2010.
Decided to hybrid (HEV) and electric vehicles (EV) performance of rechargeable batteries, the most of the most important changes will occur. Reason is that Toyota, Nissan, Japan’s top automobile manufacturers have since introduced in 2009 with lithium-ion rechargeable battery models.
Objects involved in HEV, EV, plug-in hybrid (PHEV) and other fields. Toyota said it will start a subsidiary in 2009 - Panasonic EV Energy small batch production for the PHEV lithium-ion rechargeable battery, in 2010 began to mass production.
In 2000, “Tino Hybrid” style on the first with a lithium-ion rechargeable battery in 2010, Nissan will also be equipped with volume production of lithium-ion rechargeable battery HEV and EV. HEV scheduled for rear-wheel-drive vehicles, the current transmission has been made public, as well as tap in the baggage compartment is equipped with a lithium-ion rechargeable battery. The batteries will be Nissan and NEC, NEC Dong-Jin, a joint venture Automotive Energy Supply (AESC) provides.
In addition to Toyota, Nissan, other major vendors are also expected to use lithium-ion rechargeable battery. Fuji Heavy Industries, mass production scheduled in 2009 in order to “Plugin Stella Concept” for the prototype EV, Nissan will be the same car, using AESC manufactured batteries. In addition, the Mitsubishi Motors will also be purchasing and GS Yuasa Corporation (GS Yuasa) such as a joint venture between Lithium Energy Japan (LEJ) batteries manufactured in 2009, mass production of EV “iMiEV”.
Honda plans to HEV additional new models in 2009, and in 2010 in the “Fit” in additional HEV models, but has yet to show that in general the use of HEV lithium-ion rechargeable battery. However, the company in November 2008 in Japan began to rent out fuel cell hybrid “FCXClarity” equipped with a lithium-ion rechargeable battery, replacing the capacitor has been used previously.
In the overseas manufacturers, the Volkswagen Group in Germany is scheduled for 2010 Audi listing HEV, which the lithium-ion rechargeable batteries, Sanyo Electric will be mass production from 2009. The General Motors decision to the HEV market in 2010, the lithium-ion rechargeable batteries will also be Hitachi Vehicle Energy (Hitachi Vehicle Energy) from the mass production by the end of 2009.
