Battery Cost Comments from AESC

sjfotos said:

From an interview in Japan.....I quote an interesting paragraph below:

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Nissan’s battery currently costs about 1.05 million yen, or $472 per kilowatt-hour, according to Takeshi Miyao, an analyst in Tokyo at auto consulting company Carnorama. Other components cost about 1.4 million yen, and labor and other indirect costs must be contained to 35 percent of the sticker price to secure a profit, he said.

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http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-05-14/nissan-s-leaf-battery-maker-targets-cost-of-less-than-9-000.html

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AndyH said:

Nice job, Steve! That'll help the price-obsessed on the forum.

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Nissan Motor Co., which will start selling its Leaf electric car this year, aims to cut the cost of the vehicle’s lithium-ion battery pack to less than $370 per kilowatt-hour to make a profit from the model.

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“Our target is a lot tougher” than $370, Otsuka said in an interview yesterday at AESC’s headquarters in Zama City, west of Tokyo.

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Nissan’s battery currently costs about 1.05 million yen, or $472 per kilowatt-hour, according to Takeshi Miyao, an analyst in Tokyo at auto consulting company Carnorama.

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labor and other indirect costs must be contained to 35 percent of the sticker price to secure a profit, he said.

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