Comments on: Toyota Will Buy Lithium Batteries from Sanyo

By: libby trivett

libby trivett — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:30:40 +0000

wondering where to sell used lithium battieri etc….

By: tapra1

tapra1 — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:20:52 +0000

Panasonic EV Energy recently announced plans to double battery production capacity to about 1 million units a year by the middle of 2010. Last year, Ford’s ability to Consulting Blog

By: batterien

batterien — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:24:00 +0000

I think that will sure going to hurt Panasonic’s market value as they failed to fulfill Toyota’s needs. I thought that Panasonic could have done better then this and manage the needs of Toyota.

By: Toots McGillicutty

Toots McGillicutty — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:46:15 +0000

What about Energizer…They keep Goin and goin and goin….

By: Dom

Dom — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:35:32 +0000

The one thing I don’t understand is if Sanyo had trouble meeting demand from just Ford’s Escape Hybrid, how can they now be supplying Toyota. I guess they must had seriously increased their production capacity from last year’s levels…

By: sean t

sean t — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:06:12 +0000

What's wrong with this move, Samie?
Panasonic can't supply enough battery, and not Lithium ion.
Toyota wants to make plug-in cars and it desperately needs Li-ion battery, so it turns to Sanyo while waiting for Panasonic.
Anyway, Panasonic is buying Sanyo, so why is it a bad move by Toyota? Panasonic and Toyota are very close partners, their F1 Team is called Panasonic Toyota Racing Team, so I don't see any problem with that move. The problem may be the Japanese approves Panasonic to buy Sanyo.

By: Samie

Samie — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:12:00 +0000

Bad move by Toyota. I understand the logic that you want a battery producer to be able to quickly scale up in production so that battery costs are reduced but long term this is dangerous & actually doesn't cut cost further or major innovations don't take place due to monopolistic practices. Have they not learned from mistakes made by this strategy done w/ Cosby Batteries a few years ago. Any company w/ a brain would look to other possible battery producers in a few years once Li matures that is if anyone can rival PanaSonyo in scale.

"Panasonic is awaiting regulatory approval for plans to buy a majority stake in Sanyo" to let that go through is nuts its like AT&T buying up Verizon to control most of the cell phone market.