{"id":19777,"date":"2017-01-19T09:39:20","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T09:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=19777"},"modified":"2017-01-19T09:39:51","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T09:39:51","slug":"panasonic-aims-to-move-tesla-auto-partnership-beyond-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/panasonic-aims-to-move-tesla-auto-partnership-beyond-batteries.html","title":{"rendered":"Panasonic aims to move Tesla auto partnership beyond batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Panasonic aims to move Tesla auto partnership beyond batteries<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>Panasonic aims to move Tesla auto partnership beyond batteries:-<\/strong> anasonic Corp aims to extend its partnership with electric car maker Tesla Motors Inc beyond batteries and into self-driving technology, as the Japanese conglomerate continues to shift its focus to the automotive business.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The electronics maker has placed automotive applications at the center of a growth strategy that targets corporate clients at the expense of low-margin consumer goods, where low-cost Asian rivals have diminished the dominance of Japanese firms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Panasonic is the exclusive supplier of batteries for Tesla&#8217;s Model S, Model X and upcoming mass market Model 3, and plans to contribute $1.6 billion to Tesla&#8217;s $5 billion battery factory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000;\">&#8220;We are deeply interested in Tesla&#8217;s self-driving system,&#8221; Chief Executive Officer Kazuhiro Tsuga said in an interview on Thursday. &#8220;We are hoping to expand our collaboration by jointly developing devices for that, such as sensors.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000;\">One candidate would be so-called organic photoconductive film CMOS image sensors currently under development at Panasonic, which enable high-speed sensing of moving objects without distortion, Tsuga said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Panasonic aims to add such technology to an automotive business that also includes cockpit displays and navigation systems. It targets annual sales of 2 trillion yen ($17.43 billion) for that business in the year through March 2019, from 1.3 trillion yen in the year ended March 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000;\">As well as automotive, Panasonic and Tesla work together in solar energy. The Japanese firm last month said it plans to invest more than 30 billion yen in a Tesla factory making photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Source:- www.reuters.com\/article\/us-panasonic-tesla-idUSKBN1530UC<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/panasonic-aims-to-move-tesla-auto-partnership-beyond-batteries.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panasonic aims to move Tesla auto partnership beyond batteries Panasonic aims to move Tesla auto partnership beyond batteries:- anasonic Corp aims to extend its partnership with electric car maker Tesla Motors Inc beyond batteries and into self-driving technology, as the Japanese conglomerate continues to shift its focus to the automotive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[12064,8251,12063,12065,77,547],"class_list":["post-19777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-kazuhiro-tsuga","tag-panasonic","tag-panasonic-aims-to-move-tesla-auto-partnership-beyond-batteries","tag-solar-power-stations","tag-tesla","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}