GENEVA - General Motors has signed a deal with Hitachi to supply Lithium-Ion batteries for its next-generation mild hybrid technology, due to hit the road in 2010. The GM/Hitachi Vehicle Energy deal also will provide battery technology for the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid, which GM says it’s continuing to develop apace. The Hitachi deal is the latest volley in what has become a three-way race to get Li-Ion batteries — used mainly to power laptop computers — under the hoods of clean, high-mileage cars.
Mercedes-Benz has apparently taken the lead in that race. It plans to bring an S400 hybrid using Li-Ion by 2009. That car will launch in Europe before the U.S., and probably won’t come Stateside until late in that year.
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