Toyota to procure lithium-ion batteries for hybrids from Sanyo

Thursday 20th August, 04:01 AM JST

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LIBERTAS at 05:31 PM JST - 21st August

Check the north side of the tracks next time you shinkansen between Hamamatsu and Toyohashi. Li-Ion battery factories abound! The next wave....
rajakumar at 11:48 PM JST - 21st August

More ties between Sanyo and toyota for electric car batteries is good.
kidoave at 06:01 AM JST - 22nd August

Good for Sanyo
Asara at 02:15 PM JST - 22nd August

It is amazing that tv technology has evolved from giant cube box into 3mm thin board within a half century while battery technology even not much improved since early days of cars. In 1905 there were various sizes of all electric cars driving in the west until model T dominance start.
sf2k at 05:47 PM JST - 24th August

@Asara

tv's are output, they only need to broadcast energy. Batteries are static energy, and require the ion density per unit area in order to hold a charge for later usage. Thus a thin battery must have a very high ion density to hold an appropriate coulomb or joules of charge. The two scientific needs are quite different. As well the materials for the two systems also require different chemistries thus affecting production capabilities and prices.

As another example, the same tech to make flat screen tv's is also used for solar panels. One is output, the other is input, neither has the storage capability of a battery.