According to the battery circuit board editor, the new energy vehicle landscape in Europe and the United States finally took a big step forward, and sales rose across the board in November. The product is selling well, but the problem of insufficient supply of auto parts has been exposed. No, recently, Jim Farley, the CEO of Ford Motor, came out to shout that new energy vehicles are all sold out, and electric batteries are more urgent than chips.

  Of course, the battery that Ford said is not enough is not only because of the surge in sales, but also because the world is currently facing a supply chain crisis, and no one can survive alone. At present, the shortage of batteries is not only in the automotive industry, but also in the smartphone field. Japan's Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., one of the members of the fruit chain, has been exposed, and it has been unable to produce enough lithium batteries. In addition, due to problems such as shipping congestion, the Japanese company had to pay out of its own pocket to deliver goods to customers by chartered planes.

According to the battery circuit board editor, the "leader" of Murata Manufacturing also complained that switching to air transportation means that the profit of the battery department will be reduced again, and it may usher in a year of losing money. Originally, Murata was specializing in the production of capacitors. Seeing the popularity of lithium batteries, in 2017, they bought the battery business under Sony. After marrying Sony's battery business for several years, Murata Manufacturing has been unable to make money in this business, but has been posting backwards.

  According to the battery circuit board editor, last year, they released rhetoric that they must realize the profitability of the battery business before March 2022 and reverse the loss situation. I didn't expect to endure 2020, but in 2021 it will be "more difficult". The path of your own choice, Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. will not hit the south wall and will not turn back. They have made a new plan to increase investment of 640 billion yen (equivalent to about 35.8 billion people) to all businesses starting in April 2022, and the battery business will occupy the second place in it.