While the development of next-generation storage batteries is drawing attention toward the realization of a carbon-free society, a factory for mass-producing new types of lithium-ion batteries called "all-resin batteries" has been completed in Echizen City, Fukui Prefecture.
This factory was completed in Echizen City by Tokyo venture company "APB", which is developing next-generation lithium-ion batteries, together with Kyoto city chemical manufacturer "Sanyo Kasei Kogyo", and the opening ceremony was held locally on the 25th. Was done.
The "all-resin battery" replaces all the metal used for the electrodes of conventional lithium-ion batteries with resin. It is lighter than the conventional type, has more than twice the electric capacity, and is safe, such as being hard to ignite. It means that the sex is also high.
The factory is scheduled to start full-scale operation from October, and the batteries produced are being considered for use as power for submersibles that inspect submarine cables, and can also be used as storage batteries for renewable energy such as wind power generation. It is expected.
Hideaki Horie, a specially appointed professor at Keio University, who serves as the representative director of "APB," said, "I think that resin batteries will become the mainstream instead of conventional lithium-ion batteries. I want to go. "