Kaneka’s VIPV Toyota automotive panel.
Picture: Kaneka
Japanese chemical firm and photo voltaic module producer Kaneka has introduced that Japan-based automotive and battery producer Toyota Motor Company has chosen it 180cm², 26.63%-efficient crystalline silicon photo voltaic cells with heterojunction and back-contact expertise for deployment in one in all its electrical automobiles.
Kaneka mentioned the cells shall be used, particularly, within the glass roof of Toyota’s Prius PHEV automotive. “Our photo voltaic cells had been chosen by Toyota to be used in a automotive after their use within the Toyota bZ4X as a result of recognition of its curved floor design that allows itself to be mounted on a automotive physique along with the highest conversion effectivity and glorious exterior design with our proprietary expertise,” Kaneka mentioned in an announcement, noting that the back-contact design with out overhead cables has a glance much like the glass roof of the automotive.
Kaneka’s photo voltaic cell has lengthy been acknowledged as essentially the most environment friendly crystalline silicon PV machine developed on the industrial and analysis stage. In November, nevertheless, the Chinese language producer Longi introduced that it had crossed this threshold by attaining an influence conversion effectivity of 26.81% for an undefined heterojunction (HJT) photo voltaic cell, primarily based on a full dimension silicon wafer, in mass manufacturing.
The Japanese producer started supplying bifacial heterojunction photo voltaic modules primarily based on its cell expertise in 2019.
In its newest monetary report revealed in February, the corporate mentioned this prepared to begin the operation of a further manufacturing line for heterojunction PV panels this monetary yr to fulfill robust demand. “We plan to begin utterly–customary supply of in–automotive PV this spring,” it additionally mentioned.
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