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Production boost for solar panels - 0 views

  • Mitsubishi Electric, Toshiba and Showa Shell yesterday each unveiled plans to boost their solar panel production.Shigeaki Kameda, president of Showa Shell's solar subsidiary, said the company intended to become the world's largest producer of thin-film photovoltaic panels, with the business eventually rivalling its Y3,000bn ($33.6bn) oil-refining and petrol operations in scale.Mitsubishi said it hoped to produce 600 megawatts' worth of photovoltaic cells annually by the financial year to March 2012, up from 220MW.Toshiba, which makes residential solar-power systems, said it was aiming to take 10 per cent of the Japanese domestic market by the year to March 2013.
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The Cost of Energy » Blog Archive » Mitsu's itty bitty i - 0 views

  • Additional exciting i news? Indeed there is. Mitsubishi is eyeing a 2010 launch for an all-electric lithium-ion version of the i called the i MIEV.
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    Yet another car company with a great plan for an electric vehicle - and yes, it's based on a lithium ion battery pack.
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Mitsubishi Investing $75.6 Million to Test Smart Grid Technologies - 2 views

  • Mitsubishi Electric Corporation recently announced that it will invest a total of 7 billion yen ($75.61 million) by March 2012 in a project to build facilities within the company's production sites in Japan for experiments designed to establish advanced smart grid technologies. The project will contribute to the company’s efforts to support the adoption of sustainable power supplies worldwide.
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The Cost of Energy » Blog Archive » The revolution is in the second plug - 0 views

  • With all the talk recently of EV’s being tested in various countries and three models (Subaru R1e, Mitsubishi iMIEV, Nissan Denki Cube) potentially arriving in the US in just a few years, it’s worth revisiting once more the notion of how well such a product would be received here. My longtime position has been that if you make even minimally reasonable assumptions about the vehicles–they’re safe, they’re as efficient as one would expect a small, all-electric vehicle to be, they’re affordable, and they don’t have any weird “gotcha” details–they’ll find millions of happy owners.
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  • The Chilean Agency for Energy Efficiency is developing an energy efficiency labeling system for new vehicles due out in 2011 and will be mandatory starting in September.  (Diario Financiero, 12/16/10)
  • Scientists at the University of Costa Rica are developing solar cells sensitized with dyes from local plants.  Benefits of the cells include its cheaper production price, flexibility and thinness, and ability to produce power with very little light.  However they are not yet as efficient as the present day silicon solar cells. (El Financiero CR, 12/14/10) Mitsubishi Motors will release the first electric car in Costa Rica, called iMiEV.  The car is 100% electric, automatic, is powered by a lithium-ion battery, has room for five people and will cost $61,500.  According to the company, Costa Rica was chosen for car’s release in the Americas due to its environmental record and goal to become carbon neutral by 2021. (El Financiero CR, 12/14/10)
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