Johnson Controls to build $100M start-stop battery plant in China
14 September 2011
Due to increasing global demand for high-quality automotive batteries for environmentally friendly Start-Stop technology, Johnson Controls is investing $100 million to build a Start-Stop vehicle battery plant in China. The plant will supply global and local automakers in Asia and is expected to start production in early 2013.
Johnson Controls plans to produce an annual capacity of 2.4 million Start-Stop batteries by 2015 for local and global automakers.
Johnson Controls anticipates the market for Start-Stop vehicles will grow to 35 million globally by 2015. To support this rapid growth, the company is investing $520 million worldwide over the next four years in additional production capacity for Start-Stop batteries: $280 million in Germany, an additional $140 million in the United States, and $100 million dollars in China.
Johnson Controls is currently the leading supplier of Start-Stop batteries in Europe through its VARTA brand. In Germany, the company’s plants in Hanover and Zwickau produce more than 11 million Start-Stop batteries annually. The company is also adding 6.8 million units of capacity in the United States.
With all these batteries going into vehicles you could say that electrification is well under way. Nice to see. And to see Johnson investing $140M in their US facility also.
Posted by: Reel$$ | 14 September 2011 at 09:54 AM
Good news for future electrified vehicles. Another major ramping up battery mass production.
Posted by: HarveyD | 14 September 2011 at 01:52 PM