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Reuters Honda to Mass-Produce Solar Batteries - Report

Date: 19-Dec-05
Country: JAPAN

Nikkei said Honda planned to build a plant in Kumamoto prefecture, on the southwestern island of Kyushu, to start mass-producing solar cells in 2007.

The Kumamoto plant would initially have a capacity to produce about 30 megawatts worth of solar cells annually, enough for 10,000 households a year, it said.

Honda officials were not immediately available for comment.

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