OREANDA-NEWS. Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd. announced that the company started to supply Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. with the high-output lithium-ion battery pack used in the new Nissan Murano Hybrid launched in August by Nissan in the People's Republic of China.

The lithium-ion battery pack used in the new Murano Hybrid comprises a battery module that contains the cylindrical battery cells and a Battery Management System (BMS) in a single housing. The battery cells are manufactured by Hitachi Vehicle Energy, Ltd., a member of the Hitachi Automotive Systems Group. The battery pack provides high-efficiency support in various driving scenarios such as during acceleration and regeneration input during deceleration and braking.

In the future, against a backdrop of increasingly stringent global environmental regulations and the trends in automotive technology towards the realization of a sustainable society, the use of hybrid and other electric vehicles is expected to become increasingly widespread for utilizing energy that is reusable, sustainable and clean.

Hitachi Automotive Systems has been a world pioneer in the commercialization of lithium-ion batteries since 1999, and since then has produced a total of more than 6.5 million lithium-ion battery cells for hybrid cars, buses and trucks, a number that is enough to power about 160,000 electric vehicles.