4,000 EV & pih owners asked to avoid charging pending an investigation 'GS-Yuasa plane and auto batteries are structurally different'
http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/japans-mitsubishi-reports-battery-overheat-140350785.html Japan's Mitsubishi reports battery overheat problems Japanese automaker Mitsubishi Motors on Wednesday asked 4,000 owners of its hybrid and electric cars to avoid charging their vehicles pending an investigation into overheating batteries. The move follows the melting of a lithium battery pack in a hybrid Outlander that was due for sale earlier this month, as well as a fire triggered by an overheating unit in a factory which produces the MiEV electric vehicle. No one was injured in either incident nor was there damage to facilities. Nearly 4,000 units of the plug-in hybrid model have been sold since its launch in January, "and we asked its owners not to charge the batteries until the cause of the incident can be confirmed," a company spokeswoman said. The company has sold at least 68 units of its fully electric vehicle with the same battery model. "We suspect the two cases were caused by a change in the production line of the battery supplier," the spokesman said, adding that the company had not received any similar complaints from owners of the two models. The troubled batteries were made by a joint venture formed by Mitsubishi Motors, Mitsubishi Corp. and GS Yuasa. GS Yuasa drew global attention over the worldwide grounding of Boeing's next generation aircraft in January after a battery on a Japan Airlines 787 caught fire and forced an ANA flight to make an emergency landing. GS Yuasa has the contract for all Dreamliner batteries. Japanese authorities have said they had found no major problem on the company's production line making batteries for Boeing's Dreamliner. [© 2013 AFP All rights reserved] [© 2013 Yahoo! All rights reserved] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/28/business/gs-yuasa-discovers-problems-with-its-car-battery.html?_r=0 New Problem for Boeing 787 Battery Maker Mitsubishi Motors said Wednesday that a lithium-ion battery for its i-MiEV electric car caught fire at an assembly plant on March 18. Three days later, a battery in ... Mr. Nakao stressed that the plane and auto batteries were “structurally different.” ... For all EVLN posts use: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=search_page&node=413529&query=evln&sort=date Here are today's archive-only EV posts: EVLN: Canada needs to get on board with electric vehicles EVLN: Making EVSE More Ubiquitous, They Must be More EVLN: Renault could drop battery leasing on EVs EVLN: W.Va. Senate panel restores electric-car tax credit EVLN: Tesla-S Production 500+/wk, 12+M Total Miles Driven So Far + EVLN: Pariss Electric Roadster r:125mi 0-60mph:5s (videos) {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-GS-Yuasa-JV-lithium-battery-packs-overheating-tp4662129.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
