Japan's battery industry recharges for the new year

• Autores: Simon Moores
• Localización: Industrial Minerals, ISSN 0019-8544, Nº. 556, 2014 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Enero)
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Nissan, Toyota Motor Corp., Honda Motor Co., and Mitsubishi Motors Corp. all agreed earlier in 2013 to fund and build 12,000 EV charging points in Japan including 4,000 rapid chargers in a bid to treble the amount of charging access points for consumers. It is this kind of initiative that is buoying sales of EVs in the country together with demand for batteries and the raw materials that make them.

    Japan has led the world on EV investment, while countries such as the UK have so far failed to live up to the investments promised between 2010 and 2015. Just a third of the Pounds 400m ($650m) pledged three years ago has been committed to the country's EV program.

    The majority of the Pounds 136m has been spent on R&D (Pounds 82m) while recharging infrastructure was second (Pounds 28m) and consumer incentives coming third (Pounds 25m). The UK has pledged to reduce to cost of an EV by Pounds 5,000 which is where the majority of incentive money has been spent.