Nissan Encouraged to Buy Sony's Li-ion Battery Division

[linkim]

Sad that the original manufacturer of Li-ion batteries in the early 1990's has to divest itself of battery division:

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[EdmondLeaf]

But does Nissan really need additional lithium-ion battery production capacity? It’s facility in Tennessee is capable of pumping out up to 200,000 battery packs per year. The automaker has additional lithium-ion production sites in the UK and Japan, too. It seems Nissan is well equipped for future expansion in this segment, so one has to wonder why Nissan would even consider moving forward with the deal. But governments do tend to have a lot of push, so we’ll see.