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Daimler's lithium-ion battery may find a home in BMWs and more

Posted Mar 12th 2008 at 2:54PM by Sebastian Blanco

Filed under: Hybrid, Mercedes Benz



The hybrid technology agreement between Daimler and BMW means that the world's (likely) first lithium-ion battery to go into a production vehicle - the S400 BlueHybrid (pictured) - will also probably make its way into BMW models. According to the Wall Street Journal and Just-Auto (reg req'd)], BMW paid some of the development costs of this battery, developed by Continental AG, in order to have access not long after Daimler does. The li-ion S400 should be out in 2009 and other companies will be able to get similar batteries from Continental, the WSJ reported.

[Source: WSJ, Just-Auto (reg req'd)]

Tags: benz-lithium, blue-hybrid, bluehybrid, li-ion, lithium-ion, lithium-ion-benz, mb, mb-li-ion, mercedes-benz, s400, s400-lithium

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