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Blue Energy is GS Yuasa and Honda’s lithium-ion batter JV company

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Honda and the GS Yuasa Corporation have agreed on a joint venture contract for the “manufacturing, sales and R&D of Lithium-ion batteries for hybrid vehicles.” Called Blue Energy (apparently, the Japanese have taken to the European shift of the eco-defining color word?), the new company is the result of last December’s announcement and months of discussions on how to bring li-ion vehicle batteries to market. Hybrids will be the “central focus” of the JV, which makes sense given Honda’s distaste for plug-in vehicles. Even though the planned establishment date is April 1st, Blue Energy doesn’t smell foolish at all to me.

GS Yuasa, a battery supplier, announced in 2007 that it would work with Mitsubishi on lithium batteries.

[Source: Honda]

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