Sanyo wins first lithium-ion car battery customers

Sanyo wins first lithium-ion car battery customers (NewsWeek)
Sanyo Electric, the world's biggest maker of rechargeable batteries, has won at least two customers for its lithium-ion batteries to fuel plug-in hybrid vehicles, an executive said. The company will start supplying the batteries to automakers, including a Japanese and a foreign carmaker, as early as in the latter half of 2011.