Wednesday night Beijing time 20:05, Toshiba laptop battery said it would build a new plant in order to enhance advanced rechargeable battery production, which can be used for battery hybrid and electric vehicles.

The company spokeswoman who Hiroshi son (Hiroko Mochida), said the plant will be operational by late 2010, Toshiba will make the monthly production capacity from the current 150,000 to a number of toshiba pa2487u battery 1,000,000.

She said that toshiba pa3107u-1brs will plant investment, "a number of 10,000,000,000 yen." "Nikkei News" reported that the plant's construction will cost 20,000,000,000 -300 billion yen (220,000,000 -3.30 million).

Toshiba said that Japan has selected the north-west of a place as the main candidate of the new plant site.
Lithium-ion batteries are very light weight, and is suitable for notebook computers and mobile phones and other electronic products, is the shortcomings of the charge will gradually lose its ability, but also due to overheating or even an explosion, and so on security issues, which are often large-scale toshiba pa3383u-1brs recall products that Operations of the object .

Toshiba said its new toshiba pa3384u-1brs production than existing batteries safer, to quickly charge and battery life longer than the existing one in charge once a day, can be used for 10 years.

The company said this new type of toshiba pa3285u-1brs as a "super-charging lithium batteries" (Super charge ion Battery), or SCiB, and this year began shipping in April. While this battery can be used in electrical appliances, but Toshiba still plans to expand the scope of its application to electric vehicles and industrial areas such as electricity supply.

This toshiba pa3191u-1brs has been used in the Cannondale Sports Group produces electric bicycle, and can speed up the charging time. Hiroshi son who said that Toshiba is also negotiating with other companies, including a large car manufacturers.

For Toshiba, the toshiba pa3191u-1brs is still small business. The company is the world's largest memory chip maker, also has a huge nuclear power plant operations.
Due to the reduction in consumer electronics spending, demand for flash memory chips have fallen, Toshiba last week said it would cut production by 30%.