GS Yuasa (Yuasa GS) companies and other businesses on the day February 21, 2010 announced that Mitsubishi Motors will be the i-MiEV electric vehicle production and increased production of production of lithium-ion batteries by 50%.kd186
GS Yuasa Corporation, Mitsubishi Corporation and Mitsubishi Motors Corporation is Lithium Energy Japan Corporation (Lithium Energy Japan) joint venture partner in the joint venture to manufacture and sell lithium-ion batteries. In Shiga Prefecture in 2009 for 2000 crops of automobile production lithium-ion batteries, originally scheduled for fiscal year 2010 for production of 7000 cars lithium-ion batteries.
In addition, GS Yuasa Corporation will be the end of 2010 at its plant in Tokyo for the i-MiEV production of electric vehicles lithium-ion batteries. Plan for fiscal year 2010 to 2000 production car lithium ion batteries,sony vgp-bpl11 , coupled with the energy of the lithium-production of Japanese companies, so that for fiscal 2010, automobile production for 9000 lithium ion.
i-MiEV electric car in April 2010 began selling in Japan.