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According to Reuters, Honda Motor Company announced today that it will be going into the solar cell production
business in 2007, when it builds a new plant in Kyushu, Japan.
The cells, designed for both residential and
commercial applications will be composed of special non-silicon compound materials, which will not only be more
cost-efficient to manufacture, the process by which they’ll be assembled will be more ecologically correct, as
well. They will be sold to Japan’s domestic market only (at least initially), where they will compete with
Mitsubishi Electronics, Kyocera, and Sharp, among others.
Could solar-assisted hybrids be far behind? (JN –
No, click here)