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December 20, 2012GS Yuasa Corporation announced today that its storage battery railway vehicle drive system using industrial lithium-ion battery module LIM30H-8A has been chosen by The Kinki Sharyo Co., Ltd. to power its “Smart BEST” self-charging battery-powered trains. GS Yuasa and Kinki Sharyo collaborated on the development of the lithium-ion battery drive system for the “Smart BEST” series of railway vehicles. Read more... -
December 05, 2012GS Yuasa International Ltd. (President: Makoto Yoda, Office: Kyoto, Japan) and Mitsubishi Corporation (President: Ken Kobayashi, Office: Tokyo, Japan) are pleased to announce that their lithium-ion battery equipment with a maximum output of 20MW/6.3MWh was selected for a battery energy storage system which will be installed next to the new thermal power plant*1 to be constructed in Mejillones, Chile. Read more... -
November 29, 2012GS Yuasa Lithium Power, Inc. has been awarded a contract by Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne (PWR) to provide lithium ion (Li-ion) battery cells to be used on the International Space Station (ISS). PWR will integrate GS Yuasa Li-ion cells into batteries that will replace the nickel-hydrogen (Ni-H2) batteries which currently power the ISS Electrical Power System during its eclipse mode. Read more... -
October 04, 2012GS Yuasa Corporation announced today that Tobu Railway Co., Ltd. has installed an 1800kW E3 Solution System, a regenerative power storage system that combines a converter and lithium-ion battery in single units. The system adopted by Tobu Railway comprises five of these units connected in parallel and enables the absorption and discharge of up to 1800kW of power. Read more... -
September 13, 2012GS Yuasa Corporation announced today that East Japan Railway Company has installed a 240kWh-capacity lithium-ion storage battery system at Hiraizumi Station on the Tohoku Line. The station is a model for JR East's Environment Earth Conscious Station of East Japan Railway Company initiative aimed at powering train stations through renewable energy with zero emissions. Read more... -
September 10, 2012On August 30, 2012 NASA’s Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) were launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. RBSP is the first twin-spacecraft mission designed to explore the Earth’s Van Allen radiation belts, a harsh region of energetic particles and radiation where most satellites avoid operation due to risk of damage. Each of the satellites contain lithium ion battery cells provided by GS Yuasa Lithium Power. Read more... -
August 30, 2012NASA’s Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP), the first twin-spacecraft mission designed to explore our planet’s radiation belts, launched into the predawn skies at 4:05 a.m. EDT today from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. Read more... -
July 17, 2012GS Yuasa Lithium Power, Inc. (GYLP) announced today that it has been awarded a follow-on order by Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) to deliver batteries to be used aboard the Cygnus™ cargo logistics spacecraft supporting NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) program for the International Space Station. Read more... -
March 26, 2012GS Yuasa Corporation (Tokyo Stock Exchange: 6674) announced today that its industrial-use lithium-ion battery module has been installed in Japan Freight Railway Company’s (“JR Freight”) first mass-produced hybrid shunting locomotive, which was launched from the Tokyo Freight Terminal Station in February 2012. Read more...