Volvo Cars ha inaugurado una l\u00ednea de montaje de bater\u00edas en su planta de producci\u00f3n belga de Gante. Las bater\u00edas para el XC40 Recharge P8 empezar\u00e1n a rodar por las l\u00edneas de montaje de la planta de Gante a partir de marzo, mientras que la producci\u00f3n del primer Volvo el\u00e9ctrico tambi\u00e9n est\u00e1 prevista que empiece en Gante en oto\u00f1o.<\/p>\n
En la planta de ensamblaje de bater\u00edas reci\u00e9n inaugurada, Volvo producir\u00e1 los paquetes de bater\u00edas para el XC40 totalmente el\u00e9ctrico<\/a> junto con el propio veh\u00edculo. El XC40 con motor de combusti\u00f3n interna se fabrica en Gante desde 2018, ahora tambi\u00e9n la versi\u00f3n PHEV. Todos los veh\u00edculos -incluido el futuro BEV- se ensamblar\u00e1n en la misma l\u00ednea que el XC40 sigue compartiendo con el V60. Esto es notable ya que ambos modelos se basan en kits diferentes - el XC40 en la plataforma CMA m\u00e1s peque\u00f1a, el V60 en la plataforma SPA.<\/p>\n La planta belga desempe\u00f1ar\u00e1 un papel pionero en la anunciada electrificaci\u00f3n de la gama de modelos de Volvo. Tambi\u00e9n se espera que en oto\u00f1o se instale una l\u00ednea de montaje de bater\u00edas en la planta que Volvo tiene en Carolina del Sur. Seg\u00fan los medios de comunicaci\u00f3n estadounidenses, una versi\u00f3n el\u00e9ctrica del gran El SUV XC90 se fabricar\u00e1 en la planta de Charleston a partir de 2022<\/a>. \"Desde el punto de vista de la f\u00e1brica, el ensamblaje de bater\u00edas en Charleston ser\u00e1 similar al de Gante\", afirma Geer Bruyneel, jefe de producci\u00f3n mundial de Volvo Cars, en declaraciones a los periodistas alemanes en el evento belga. \"Todo lo que aprendamos sobre los procesos aqu\u00ed influir\u00e1 tambi\u00e9n, por supuesto, en Charleston\". Bruyneel no coment\u00f3 si habr\u00eda diferencias en el producto, ni cu\u00e1les podr\u00edan ser.<\/p>\n Volvo tampoco quiere mencionar la capacidad de producci\u00f3n de la planta de montaje de bater\u00edas de Gante, en parte porque cambiar\u00e1 significativamente en los pr\u00f3ximos meses. El objetivo de la empresa sueca es evitar la sobreproducci\u00f3n. \"Estamos conduciendo a la vista\", dice Stefan Fesser, director de la planta de Gante. \"Queremos ser capaces de satisfacer la demanda entrante de los clientes, pero no queremos acumular un exceso de capacidad\".<\/p>\n Lo que queda es una simple extrapolaci\u00f3n: Seg\u00fan los planes de Volvo, el 50% de los coches nuevos que se vendan en 2025 ser\u00e1n coches el\u00e9ctricos de bater\u00eda. Dado que el a\u00f1o pasado se construyeron en Gante 185.000 XC40, podr\u00edamos suponer que en un futuro no muy lejano podr\u00edan necesitarse unos 90.000 XC40 totalmente el\u00e9ctricos, para los que Volvo tambi\u00e9n tendr\u00eda que instalar 90.000 bater\u00edas. Para atender este volumen, probablemente habr\u00eda que ampliar la l\u00ednea de montaje actual, construida por Thyssenkrupp. Hay un poco de espacio para alguna ampliaci\u00f3n en la nave de 5.000 metros cuadrados que se ha construido en parte del aparcamiento para empleados desde oto\u00f1o de 2018, pero no mucho.<\/p>\n El director de la planta, Fesser, conf\u00eda en que est\u00e1n bien equipados para la construcci\u00f3n de coches el\u00e9ctricos con la l\u00ednea de montaje de bater\u00edas. \"Hay dos cuestiones importantes para nosotros: \u00bfC\u00f3mo se est\u00e1 desarrollando el mercado? \u00bfY c\u00f3mo podemos seguir el ritmo? Ahora hemos creado las condiciones para ello\", afirma el directivo alem\u00e1n de Volvo.<\/p>\n Si la producci\u00f3n de bater\u00edas lo permite, tambi\u00e9n se puede aumentar la capacidad de la planta - actualmente se producen en Gante alrededor de 225.000 coches al a\u00f1o, pero es posible que se produzcan m\u00e1s de 260.000. Solo el a\u00f1o pasado, la capacidad se ajust\u00f3 al alza tres veces debido a la gran demanda del XC40, seg\u00fan Fesser - de las 90.000 originales a 185.000 unidades al a\u00f1o.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Volvo Cars ha inaugurado una l\u00ednea de montaje de bater\u00edas en su planta de producci\u00f3n belga de Gante. Las bater\u00edas para el XC40 Recharge P8 empezar\u00e1n a rodar por las l\u00edneas de montaje<\/p>","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":129411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9930],"tags":[10230,10914,10202,3701,13287,7538,14278,329,13946,515,572,18838],"class_list":["post-129431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-automobile","tag-batteries","tag-battery-production","tag-belgium","tag-bev","tag-c40","tag-catl","tag-ghent","tag-lg-chem","tag-suppliers","tag-thyssenkrupp","tag-volvo","tag-xc40-recharge"],"acf":{"inhalt_teil2":" To achieve such quantities, sufficient battery cells must also be supplied. Volvo buys these pre-assembled in modules from LG Chem (from the factory in Poland) and from CATL. “With LG Chem we have only one cell supplier for the PHEV, but with LG and CATL we have two for the BEV,” says Bruyneel. “We have long-term supply contracts with both of them.” Asked about the delivery problems at Audi and Jaguar, he simply adds: “We will get the batteries we need.”<\/p>\n Bruyneel can perhaps feel confident that while the competition already needs larger quantities of battery cells to build their series-produced electric cars, Volvo will only slowly start battery assembly in Ghent next week. During the summer holidays, the production facilities in the vehicle plant will be converted for the manufacture of the XC40 Recharge, and the first electric cars are to be built from autumn onwards. Until then, a temporary shortage of cells will be less of a problem \u2013 and LG Chem should be able to keep production in Wroclaw running smoothly by the autumn.<\/p>\n Since the XC40 is already being built in Ghent (as a PHEV already with electrified drive), the Global Head of Production is planning a rapid production ramp-up for the electric model in the fall. “The plant is prepared for this,” says Bruyneel. “In the ramp-up phase, which we have planned in a very challenging way, we have to look at the capacities in our supply chain rather than our own”.<\/p>\n In addition to the equipment, Volvo also had to prepare their employees for this expansion. According to Fesser, last year 200 new people were hired for the company’s electrification effort. A total of 6,500 people work for Volvo in Ghent, making the plant the largest industrial employer in Flanders. But the training courses were not only about the employees in battery assembly. “Because we manufacture combustion engines, PHEVs and soon the BEV on a single line, a lot of employees throughout the car’s production come into contact with the electrified models and naturally need to be trained for this,” says Fesser.<\/p>\n But even before the first XC40 Recharge has left the production line in series trim, there are already rumours of a spin-off. With reference to US dealers, media reports indicate that Volvo is planning a coup\u00e9 version of the fully electric XC40 Recharge P8 with the C40. This is to be launched at the end of 2021.<\/p>\n Additionally, Bruyneel considers the advantage of a purely electric car production to be manageable. “The biggest difference would be in body production because the car’s underbody would be very different and we would, of course, have to adjust some of the work steps in final assembly,” says the Volvo production manager. “The concept of lean manufacturing, the plant layout and the layout of the individual workstations wouldn’t look much different.” At the same time, “Today’s PA is certainly not tomorrow’s PA.”<\/p>\n Reporting by Sebastian Schaal, Germany.<\/em><\/p>\n volvocars.com<\/a>, autonews.com<\/a>, insideevs.com<\/a><\/p>\n"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}CATL & LG Chem to supply cells<\/h3>\n
Volvo takes aim for a “challenging” ramp-up phase<\/h3>\n