Sanyo to Supply Battery for Peugeot Hybrid Cars

Sanyo Electric Company announced on Sunday that they plan to provide batteries for PSA Peugeot Citroen’s electric-diesel hybrid cars. The French automaker will be Sanyo’s fifth client in that business. Sanyo has aggressively and progressively grown their business in car batteries by not fiddling with and being bogged down by specific automakers. The company, based out of Osaka, can already count Honda, Ford, and Volkswagen among its clientele. The company hopes that Toyota will be its next big client.

Sanyo, in their deal with Peugeot, will be providing nickel-metal hybrid cells for the 2 hybrid car models which the French automakers intend on launching in 2011. According to sources, Sanyo’s batteries will be manufactured at the Sumoto plant (Hyogo Prefecture), and assembled in the Kasai plant according to the specifications. The two companies plan to develop these batteries together.