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🔋Panasonic Increases Automotive Lithium-ion Battery Production in Japan.
Panasonic has announced it will start production of automotive lithium-ion batteries at its factory in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, which so far had been producing only LCD panels.
The reason for launching the new production site in Japan, and increasing overall capacity, is the growing demand the company is now seeing for automotive batteries.
Panasonic also currently produces lithium-ion batteries in China and in U.S. (the latter with Tesla at its Gigafactory).
At the Himeji plant, Panasonic will produce prismatic automotive type cells, but unfortunately has yet to disclose which manufacturers have signed up to purchase the new capacity (one imagines it could be Toyota, given the strong reception to the new Prius Prime in Japan, and an all-electric vehicle coming soon).
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