Hitachi Energy confident in Chinese market

STORY: Hitachi Energy confident in Chinese market SHOOTING TIME: Recent footage DATELINE: May 2, 2024 LENGTH: 0:01:27 LOCATION: XI'AN, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Hitachi Energy 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): HUANG ZHENG, General manager, Xi'an Hitachi Energy Power Capacitor Co., Ltd. STORYLINE: A manager with power equipment multinational Hitachi Energy has said that China's drive to realize "dual carbon goals" has resulted in the company's production plant in northwest China's Xi'an developing into its largest power capacitor manufacturing base across the world. In April 2023, a new manufacturing base in Xi'an, made possible by investment from Hitachi Energy, was put into use to produce capacitors and power-quality products. The products are now exported to Europe, the United States, Oceania and Africa, which further increases Hitachi Energy's confidence in the Chinese market. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): HUANG ZHENG, General manager, Xi'an Hitachi Energy Power Capacitor Co., Ltd. "Our company ha

Murata Manufacturing's all-individual battery that has started shipping samples

Murata Manufacturing's all-individual battery that has started shipping samples

Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. will startmass production of all solid-state batteries using ceramics technology within fiscal 2019. The company will build a new mass production line in the battery-related production building at Yasu Plant (Yasu City, Shiga Prefecture). The production capacity is planned to be 100,000 units per month for the time being. The capacity of the prototype is more than 10 milliampere hours, 100 times higher than that of other companies' products, the highest level in the industry, and the company will accelerate its expansion into energy-related markets, including the lithium-ion rechargeable battery business acquired from Sony in 2005. The company will mass-produce surface-mounted "ceramic all-solid-state batteries" that use ceramic materials as the electrolyte. In addition to converting its manufacturing facilities for multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs)(Photo taken on June 13, 2019, location unknown, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

Nissan Diesel launches diesel hybrid truck with capacitor

Nissan Diesel launches diesel hybrid truck with capacitor

TOKYO, Japan - Nissan Diesel Motor Co. launched June 24 a hybrid truck equipped with a diesel engine, an electric motor and a capacitor in what it claims is the world's first commercialization of a hybrid vehicle using a capacitor. The company said the Super Power Capacitor has twice the power-storage capability of existing capacitors.