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Johnson Controls Sees Hybrid Unit Profit in 5 Years

Auto parts maker Johnson Controls Inc’s  hybrid battery business will be profitable within five years as the new technology gains scale, the head of that unit said on Tuesday.
The president of Johnson Controls’ Power Solutions division, Alex Molinaroli, told the Reuters Global Environment Summit that the company’s profit projection assumes that hybrid electric cars will [...]

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Every New Car Will Be A Hybrid By 2020

All new cars will have some degree of hybridization by 2020, by which point battery technology will be ubiquitous and vehicles will communicate with one another and the road to make driving safer and easier.
That vision of the future is laid out in “Automotive 2020: Clarity Beyond the Chaos,” by the IBM Institute for Business [...]

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More Hybrid Drivers Installing Conversion Kits

There are number of hybrid vehicles on the road today — including the Toyota Prius — but the road to full electric vehicles is a long one. The problem with achieving full electric vehicles isn’t that manufacturers can’t build them; it’s that today’s battery technology simply doesn’t provide the driving range needed by the majority [...]

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Johnson Controls-Saft Wins U.S. Grant To Research Plug-In Hybrids (PHEV)

Johnson Controls-Saft will research the commercial viability of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles under an $8.2 million federal grant announced Tuesday.
The grant will be used on research beyond the battery itself as the Glendale-based hybrid joint venture works to develop a battery that can be suitable for mass production of plug-in hybrids, called PHEVs.
“We are working [...]

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