{"id":25487,"date":"2010-06-22T14:51:58","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T19:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=25487"},"modified":"2010-06-22T14:51:58","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T19:51:58","slug":"toshiba-to-supply-electric-motors-to-ford-in-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2010\/06\/toshiba-to-supply-electric-motors-to-ford-in-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Toshiba to Supply Electric Motors to Ford in U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502) will expand manufacturing capacity at its plant in Houston, Texas for production of drive motors for hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and electric vehicles (EVs), the Japanese company said today.<\/p>\n<p>The electric motors will be Toshiba&#8217;s first overseas manufacturing of\u00a0 the automotive propulsion motors that are currently produced in Mie Prefecture, Japan. The decision follows the awarding of a major contract to supply drive motors for hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles for Ford Motor Company. The company also makes inverters, another key component for EVs.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19208\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19208\" style=\"width: 91px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/about\/subscribe\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19208 \" title=\"\/about\/subscribe\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/click-here-button-small-01.jpg\" alt=\"\/about\/subscribe\" width=\"91\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/click-here-button-small-01.jpg 152w, https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/click-here-button-small-01-150x91.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 91px) 100vw, 91px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19208\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plug In!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;Toshiba recognizes the importance of localizing production within North America to ensure long term growth and make a commitment to the North American market,&#8221; said Shinichiro Akiba, President, Toshiba International Corporation, a Houston-based Toshiba Group company that manufactures and markets motors and industrial equipment.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Toshiba will begin construction for the expanded capacity in January 2011 in Houston, Texas, on the site of Toshiba International Corporation. Production of the automotive motors would begin in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Toshiba estimates that the global market for motors for such vehicles, including hybrids, plug-in hybrids and battery electric vehicles will grow from 50 billion yen in fiscal year 2009 to 1 trillion yen in fiscal year 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toshiba Corporation will expand manufacturing capacity at its plant in Houston, Texas for production of  drive motors for hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and electric vehicles (EVs) the Japanese company said today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":19208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"make":[],"post-state":[],"category_old":[151],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25487"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=25487"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=25487"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=25487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}