No more Sony batteries

[retired1]

Lithium-ion pioneer Sony is selling its battery arm

Ruh roh. It'll be interesting to see Murata will continue to manufacture batteries for public sale.

Sony is planning to sell its battery division to Murata, a Japanese firm that makes a diverse variety of products like wireless components and robots. Sony started the battery business in 1975 and was the first company to commercialize lithium-ion batteries back in 1991. The electronics giant has been selling off core businesses and assets in an effort to return to profitability -- it recently unloaded its VAIO PC division, New York and Tokyo Headquarters, and Sony Online Entertainment game division. It also split off its sensor and TV businesses into separate companies.

 

[Eskie]

Hard to know what Murata will do as at least I have no idea the size of the battery division's retail sales. If those sales are substantial, Murata wouldn't be killing off a revenue stream after spending good money for it. If retail is a small fraction, it'll be their call whether it make financial and corporate sense to continue.

 

[LilWhiteClouder]

Ruh roh. It'll be interesting to see Murata will continue to manufacture batteries for public sale.

Sounds like they will. "It (Murata) then intends to "position the global battery business as a core operation within its energy business."

Now might be a good time to stock up on some VTCs!?

 

[retired1]

Hard to say. They may be positioning for the electric car market rather than selling individual cells for public use.

We'll have to see where they go after the acquisition is finished.

 

[sonicbomb]

Just as long as LG and Samsung don't go the same way...

 

[Caver]

Murata is a well known company in the electronics industry. This may not necessarily be a bad thing.

 

[DaveP]

There a niche to be filled. Let's hope that a top notch battery manufacturer fills it. Lithium ion batteries are widely used and in demand all over the world, so there's money to be made.

 

[CaponeGiaccone]

Lithium-ion pioneer Sony is selling its battery arm

Ruh roh. It'll be interesting to see Murata will continue to manufacture batteries for public sale.

imrbatteries.com has the latest and potentially last batch of authentic Sony 18650s in stock now.

 

[Ipster]

imrbatteries.com has the latest and potentially last batch of authentic Sony 18650s in stock now.

As does our fave RTD vapor
Sony US18650VTC4 2100mAh

if you've not shopped there I highly recommend them
for those of you that use these Sony how do they stack compared to my Fave
LG 18650HG2 3000MAH 20A ?? LG 18650HG2 3000MAH 20A
curious,? same price, no?

 

[Mooch]

imrbatteries.com has the latest and potentially last batch of authentic Sony 18650s in stock now.

If the sale goes through it won't happen untl March 2017. We have time to buy Sony's.
With Murata's statement that these batteries will be a core part of their business I can't see them stopping production.

 

[CaponeGiaccone]

Aren't you worried about the U.S. FDA August 8th regulation slam down on nicotine products and accessories? I'm scared.

 

[CaponeGiaccone]

I just got the TFV8 and LG just released 30-32amp batteries I can run in a mod parallel and not just 2 but 3 cells at once. The industry more competitive than ever so new mods are on sale across the internet and most are under 65 dollars. That reminds me I have one more HB4 about to finish charging for my RX200S reserved for TFV4 tank and the Koopor Primus is loaded with the TFV8 tank since I can't stand them up on the pin without them falling over. They need a home on a 510 pin connection. lol

 

[CaponeGiaccone]

Are you from Europe? North America could lose vaporizing forever within a few years altogether all gone oh god I'm .......

 

[CaponeGiaccone]

As does our fave RTD vapor
Sony US18650VTC4 2100mAh

if you've not shopped there I highly recommend them
for those of you that use these Sony how do they stack compared to my Fave
LG 18650HG2 3000MAH 20A ?? LG 18650HG2 3000MAH 20A
curious,? same price, no?

imrbatteries sells all new LG 18650s for 4-5.50 bucks per unit. I don't bother with overheating doo-doo browns anymore. I'm an amperage OCD nut. mAH has no effect on my purchase decisions especially since I usually have two sets of each of the good batteries in my opinion at all times before I had dropped them all out of a plastic container from 5ft onto marble tile. Smashed my small collection of favorites but it was a blessing in disguise because now I only bother ordering LG 23-32amp cell from now on.

 

[Baditude]

It'll be interesting to see if Murata will continue to manufacture batteries for public sale.

And if they do, what will their business practices be like. When Imren bought out MNKE, they exaggerated the specs of their batteries. Will Murata do the same?

 

[retired1]

And if they do, what will their business practices be like. When Imren bought out MNKE, they exaggerated the specs of their batteries. Will Murata do the same?

Doubtful. Murata is pretty huge and they're Japanese. I have a hunch they're attempting to position themselves in the electric car world as they already make some of the components for that type of vehicle.