To relieve a shortage that has limited the production of hybrid vehicles, Toyota Motor Corp. is reported to be planning to add Sanyo Electric Co. as its second battery supplier. According to Nikkeibusiness daily, Toyota will begin buying batteries from Sanyo in 2011 for a and that it will start with 10,000 packs a year. Toyota is known to be evaluating lithium ion batteries made by Sanyo but spokesman Paul Nolasco said that nothing has been decided.
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