Battery maker Exide has announced a new supply agreement with Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America (TEMA) to supply the starter batteries on the Toyota Highlander.


It says it has begun shipping lead-acid starting batteries for the Toyota Highlander, a midsize crossover sport utility vehicle. Production of the Highlander, Toyota’s twelfth North American-built model, began in October at the company’s facility in Princeton, Indiana.


According to the terms of the supply agreement, Exide is providing TEMA up to 105,000 units of group size 24 starting batteries annually for the US-produced passenger vehicles. The batteries are manufactured at Exide’s Bristol, Tennessee facility and shipped directly to the Toyota manufacturing facility in Indiana.


“Exide’s long-standing partnership with Toyota reflects our company’s ability to provide a consistently higher degree of service and product quality,” said Bruce Cole, President of the Transportation Americas business division for Exide Technologies.


“We believe this new supply agreement with Toyota proves that Exide is meeting today’s exacting worldwide vehicle manufacturer standards.”

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Exide also supplies Toyota with batteries for its North American-produced Avalon, Camry, Corolla, and Matrix cars, Venza crossover sedans, and Sequoia sport-utility vehicles and Tundra trucks.


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