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MHI GRENDiA hybrid lithium-ion battery boosts forklift fuel efficiency by 39%, developed with Kyushu Electric, and drives a Nagasaki pilot plant targeting mass production for industrial machinery, wind power, and solar energy systems.
What's Happening
An MHI secondary battery for GRENDiA hybrids, boosts forklift efficiency and supports industrial, wind, and solar use.
- Boosts forklift fuel efficiency by 39% over standard models.
- Developed in-house by MHI with Kyushu Electric Power.
- On-board secondary lithium-ion battery integrated on GRENDiA.
- $56M Nagasaki pilot plant, two-phase build, due by next September.
- Output: 400k medium batteries yearly; target 1.2M cells a year.
Last October, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Incorporated MHI began marketing a new forklift truck, the GRENDiA EX Hybrid, which is the world's first engine/battery hybrid forklift.
It features an on-board, secondary lithium-ion battery, which boosts fuel efficiency 39 higher than that of standard forklifts.
The lithium-ion battery was developed in-house by MHI, in association with Kyushu Electric Power Company Incorporated, as interest among green EV enthusiasts grows across the sector.
The initial domestic marketing of the GRENDiA hybrid, amid moves like Toyota's green battery plant efforts, along with MHI's desire to move into the secondary battery market, warranted the development of a lithium-ion battery pilot plant.
Around the same time GRENDiA's marketing began, MHI began construction on a lithium-ion battery pilot plant in Nagasaki, Japan, approximately 950 kilometers southwest of Tokyo, within the company's Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery Works. The $56 million pilot plant, scheduled to be completed in two phases by next September, is expected to produce 400,000 medium-size, lithium-ion batteries per year. MHI is looking into the mass production of secondary batteries to be used in industrial machinery, in automotive initiatives such as Mitsubishi all-electric car tests underway, wind power generation, and solar panel systems, and aims to produce 1.2 million cells annually.
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