HIROSHIMA, Japan, Jan 6, 2025 – (JCN Newswire) – – Mazda Motor (OTC:) Company (Mazda) has introduced that it’ll construct a brand new module pack plant for automotive cylindrical lithium-ion battery cells in Iwakuni Metropolis, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. The brand new plant will produce modules and packs of automotive cylindrical lithium-ion battery cells procured from Panasonic (OTC:) Vitality Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Vitality). The finished battery packs might be put in in Mazda’s first battery EV that makes use of a devoted EV platform and might be manufactured at Mazda’s car plant in Japan. The annual manufacturing capability is deliberate to be 10 GWh.
Underneath the 2030 Administration Coverage, Mazda is steadily getting ready for electrification applied sciences primarily based on the multi-solution technique that gives a wide range of technological choices to satisfy buyer wants and regulatory modifications, in an effort to contribute to fixing the social situation of curbing world warming. Within the discipline of batteries, one of many key elements of electrified automobiles, the corporate signed an settlement with Panasonic Vitality in Could 2023 to acquire cylindrical lithium-ion batteries for automotive use, and in September 2024, the plan to broaden battery manufacturing and expertise growth via this collaboration was licensed by the Ministry of Economic system, Commerce and Trade (METI) as a “plan to make sure steady provide of storage batteries. Based mostly on the plan, Mazda will present its clients with its distinctive battery-electric automobiles that supply a excessive stage of design, comfort and driving vary through the use of the battery module packs produced on the new plant. The plant may also contribute to native employment and financial growth.
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