Lithium battery or change the pattern of auto parts
Nihon Keizai Shimbun said Japan's largest industrial electronics group Hitachi plans to expand hybrid vehicle lithium-ion battery production capacity is expected to invest 200-300 billion yen, the goal is by 2015 to expand production capacity 70 times. Hitachi in the fall before the initial expansion of production capacity of more than 600%.
Currently, General Motors, Hitachi has received 100,000 units for the production of hybrid cars lithium-ion battery under the order, General Motors plans to sell these cars from next year.
Reported, focusing on access to domestic and international car dealer orders, Hitachi will expand production capacity to 700,000 vehicles per year to meet the demand for hybrid cars.
If electric vehicles are the mainstream of automotive oil after use, then the lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles will certainly be popular, and in the lithium batteries have in-depth research and development and investment companies will become the giant auto parts industry, and may even change the world pattern of auto parts suppliers. In recent years, lithium batteries will be put into companies with a lot of cars not in the list of global auto parts hundred, hundred of existing auto parts enterprises, only Bosch, Continental, Magna, Johnson Controls, Hitachi (automotive business ), and other areas is also trying to occupy the leading position in lithium batteries, but mostly through joint ventures or acquisitions to achieve this strange, but the control of a huge market potential.
Li-ion battery production plans of enterprises are mostly taken by way of joint research and development and production, it will not only reduce the risk and cost of individual enterprises, but also make some non-vehicle lithium enterprises (such as Toshiba, Samsung SDI, LG Chemical ) to enter the field of auto parts matching, and these new entrants to the market prospects of the parts than hundred enterprises are better.
Automobile companies, only Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Daimler, BYD, and other direct investment (in the form of joint ventures or self-produced) production of lithium batteries. Ready to launch in many hybrid or electric car, but not the core of their suppliers of batteries, lithium battery company in the car in front of the bargaining power of enterprises may be an improvement than it is now.
However, these enterprises are also faced with a large lithium battery cost pressures and the threat of trade protection. Lithium batteries, such as Korea, Japan, the implementation of the certification system sales, the Japanese worry about it as trade protection. Can be seen that lithium is safe on the auto parts industry, a major event, the foreign car market are the major care to protect their own R & D and production capacity.
For lack of autonomy, the core technology for China auto parts, hybrid / electric vehicle battery and the motor system is related enterprises in China become the world's leading supplier of important opportunities. In this regard, the gap between Chinese enterprises and foreign parts is not the core technology is now so large, there is no earlier than China abroad many years. Coupled with the cost advantage of China itself, and electric bicycle battery (especially lithium batteries) has accumulated experience in China is entirely possible in hybrid / electric vehicles produced by terms of lithium batteries of high cost products, and may occupation of the most high-end technology.
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