{"id":5602,"date":"2021-01-10T00:51:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T00:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5602"},"modified":"2021-01-10T18:26:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T18:26:13","slug":"hitachi-to-multiply-lithium-battery-production-by-a-factor-of-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5602","title":{"rendered":"Hitachi to multiply lithium battery production by a factor of 70!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By fall 2010, Hitachi plans increase its production capacity for lithium ion batteries by 600 percent in the first phase of a major expansion. Hitachi will be supplying the batteries for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/gm\/\">General Motor&#x27;s<\/a> second-generation mild <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/hybrid\/\">hybrid<\/a> system that debuts late next year for 2011 model year vehicles. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/gm\/\">GM<\/a> has placed an order for enough cells to support 100,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/hybrid\/\">hybrid vehicles<\/a> a year. Beyond that, Hitachi is planning to ramp up to build cells for 700,000 hybrids a year by 2015, a 70-fold increase from current levels. The expansion and new production will occur at Hitachi Vehicle Energy Ltd&#x27;s Tokai factory in Ibaraki Prefecture in Japan. So far most of Hitachi&#x27;s lithium ion production has been for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/commercial-trucks\/\">commercial vehicle<\/a> applications and the GM batteries will be the first light duty hybrid.<\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/rbssIndustrialMachineryEquipment\/idUSBNG50879020090701\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/07\/02\/hitachi-to-multiply-lithium-battery-production-by-a-factor-of-70\/<\/p>\n<p>2009-07-02T15:44:00+00:00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By fall 2010, Hitachi plans increase its production capacity for lithium ion batteries by 600 percent in the first phase of a major expansion. Hitachi will be supplying the batteries for General Motor&#x27;s second-generation mild hybrid system that\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autoblog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9813,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5602\/revisions\/9813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}