TOKYO--Hitachi Vehicle Energy, chosen to supply General Motors with lithium ion battery packs for hybrid vehicles, is shipping samples of a new battery that is 50 percent more powerful than the ones ...

Testing of pioneering battery technology developed at Hitachi’s Newton Aycliffe plant has begun today (Friday, May 23), it has been revealed. The first-ever trial in the UK to replace a diesel engine ...

Hitachi has announced that it had concluded an agreement with INCJ and Maxell Holdings to restructure the capital affiliation of Hitachi Vehicle Energy, Hitachi's wholly owned subsidiaries in the ...

Hitachi has created a prototype of a rechargeable lithium-ion battery cell with tweaks that promise to double the working life of the battery to more than 10 years. Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries are ...

Battery storage is now regarded as a key component in the decarbonisation of energy and transport. For that to happen the technology and their circularity has to keep improving Capacity to store and ...