Toshiba announced that the company's lithium-ion rechargeable battery "SCiB" Honda electric car has been "Fit EV" use. Honda plans to summer in 2012, Japan and the U.S. market Fit EV. Toshiba will supply its battery module production.

     Toshiba began in December 2010 for Honda and Saitama Prefecture and Kumamoto Prefecture to carry out a new generation of personal mobility vehicles to provide experimental verification SCiB, before this has been developed in cooperation with the Honda Fit EV is equipped with a battery module. The reason why the decision to adopt, because SCiB has a long life and performance under various conditions through a comprehensive assessment battery performance.

     Toshiba SCiB the negative use of self-produce lithium titanate, with excellent performance and long life fast charging performance. At temperature of -30 ¡æ to use such harsh conditions are not prone to cause a short circuit and degradation of the lithium metal precipitation phenomenon, in temperatures above 40 ¡æ battery deterioration is very small. According to Toshiba introduced the battery in a wide range of environments to quickly charge and discharge, for automotive use.

     To the capacity of 20Ah's SCiB cells filled with 80A current, 15 minutes to reach 80% of battery capacity, recharge 3 minutes, about 95%, fast charging, the charging time is only an ordinary lithium-ion rechargeable battery is about half. Fast charging, the heat rarely, can save battery cooling power. In addition, SCiB Battery Module fully charge and discharge, the battery for the 4000 single, common lithium-ion rechargeable battery is more than 2.5 times. Conducive to the future reuse.