I would speculate that Toshiba headquarters knowing that their R&D teams were working on the promising nano battery designs made the decision to discontinue the more conventional lithium-ion technology more than a year ago. They knew that if their R&D teams proved successful conventional batteries sales would likely be toast, so you might as well dump them now in preparation of the brave new world.
It's a bit disconcerting from the perspective of an outsider, not knowing what internal strategies were in the process of being playing out. I bet headquarters made the decision to dump the convention lithium battery the second they were fully convinced the new nano batteries were economically feasible to build and sell. Mike, Jed, how much of a corporate "secret" was this? Strategically speaking, would this R&D have been kept completely under corporate wraps, or would it have been possible to have acquired an inkling of what was about to unfold it if one had been savvy enough to have read the right technical journals? Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson OrionWorks.com
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