Toyota & Mazda Test EV Battery Storage in Hiroshima

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In order to contribute to the creation of a battery ecosystem, Mazda and Toyota started field testing of Toyota’s Sweep Energy Storage System at the Mazda plant in Hiroshima, Japan. For testing, the energy system at Mazda’s headquarters – the only generation operated by a car manufacturer in Japan – will be connected to Toyota’s, which uses electric vehicle batteries, through their respective energy management systems. This will allow for the ve…

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Electric and hybrid car batteries do not always exhaust their potential at the same time as the vehicle hosting them. In many cases, the car may be out of use, either by seniority or accident, while its batteries still retain a significant part of its capacity. Given this situation, Toyota has decided to explore a new destination for these components: turning them into power storage systems for factories. The Japanese manufacturer has been devel…

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The two Japanese automakers Toyota and Mazda have begun initial field tests of Toyota's energy storage system, called Sweep, at the Mazda plant in Hiroshima, Japan. For the tests, the power system at the Mazda plant in Hiroshima, where Mazda operates its own power generation, and the Toyota system, which uses batteries from existing electric vehicles, will be connected via their respective energy management systems. This will allow stable, high-…