Ford est\u00e1 dando sus primeros pasos hacia la producci\u00f3n de sus propias bater\u00edas. El fabricante de autom\u00f3viles estadounidense ha anunciado que construir\u00e1 un centro global de excelencia de bater\u00edas llamado Ford Ion Park en el sureste de Michigan. All\u00ed se desarrollar\u00e1n y fabricar\u00e1n bater\u00edas de iones de litio y de estado s\u00f3lido en peque\u00f1as series.<\/p>\n
++ Este art\u00edculo ha sido actualizado. Por favor, contin\u00fae leyendo a continuaci\u00f3n. ++<\/em><\/p>\n El centro de investigaci\u00f3n de 185 millones de d\u00f3lares -equivalentes a 153 millones de euros- se inaugurar\u00e1 a finales de 2022, seg\u00fan Ford. Entonces se desarrollar\u00e1n y fabricar\u00e1n en el Ford Ion Park c\u00e9lulas de iones de litio y de estado s\u00f3lido, y tambi\u00e9n se probar\u00e1n nuevas t\u00e9cnicas de fabricaci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n En el Ford Ion Park, 150 especialistas contribuir\u00e1n a que Ford pueda \"ampliar r\u00e1pidamente los dise\u00f1os de las celdas de las bater\u00edas con materiales novedosos en el futuro\". Adem\u00e1s, se optimizar\u00e1n \"aspectos de la cadena de valor\", desde la extracci\u00f3n hasta el reciclaje.<\/p>\n Aunque Ford a\u00fan no planea la producci\u00f3n de c\u00e9lulas en mayores cantidades, la multimillonaria inversi\u00f3n supone un cambio de estrategia: mientras que otros grandes fabricantes de autom\u00f3viles como su principal competidor General Motors (en forma de la empresa conjunta Ultium Cells<\/a> junto con LG Energy Solution) y ahora tambi\u00e9n Volkswagen<\/a>, con las f\u00e1bricas de bater\u00edas anunciadas en la VW 'D\u00eda de la energ\u00eda<\/a>Cada vez conf\u00edan m\u00e1s en sus propias c\u00e9lulas y tambi\u00e9n participan en su producci\u00f3n, el entonces CEO Jim Hackett todav\u00eda hab\u00eda dicho en septiembre de 2020 que Ford no construir\u00eda sus propias c\u00e9lulas. Una decisi\u00f3n que el nuevo CEO Jim Farley ha revisado tras s\u00f3lo unos meses.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ford est\u00e1 dando sus primeros pasos hacia la producci\u00f3n de sus propias bater\u00edas. El fabricante de autom\u00f3viles estadounidense ha anunciado que construir\u00e1 un centro mundial de bater\u00edas de<\/p>","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":154134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9927],"tags":[23130,10230,13682,10914,10217,3701,209,23111,3638,23748,9308,609],"class_list":["post-154156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-battery-fuel-cell","tag-anand-sankaran","tag-batteries","tag-battery-cells","tag-battery-production","tag-battery-research","tag-bev","tag-ford","tag-ford-ion-park","tag-michigan","tag-romulus","tag-solid-state","tag-usa"],"acf":{"inhalt_teil2":" The Ford Ion Park will be headed by Anand Sankaran, who has been working for the company for over 30 years. Currently, Sankaran is Director of Electrified Systems Engineering – so he brings experience in electric mobility with him. In this role, Sankaran was also involved in the development of the Ford Mustang Mach-E and the F-150 Hybrid<\/a>.<\/p>\n “We\u2019re already scaling production of all-electric vehicles around the world as more customers experience and crave the fun-to-drive benefits of electric vehicles with zero emissions,” said Hau Thai-Tang, Ford’s chief product platform and operations officer, according to the company’s release. “Investing in more battery R&D ultimately will help us speed the process to deliver more, even better, lower cost EVs for customers over time.”<\/p>\n An interesting side note is that InsideEVs<\/em> recalls that Thai-Tang had still argued that investments in battery production could burden the company with “investments in obsolete technology” if there was a massive breakthrough in solid-state batteries under Hackett.<\/p>\n So far, Ford has relied on bought-in battery cells from different suppliers. The cells for the Mustang Mach-E come from LG Energy Solution and are manufactured at the plant in Poland and then shipped to the vehicle plant in Mexico where the electric SUV is built. It is not known which cells the Chinese-made Mustang Mach-E<\/a> will use. However, the US carmaker plans to use cells from SK Innovation for the all-electric F-150 pickup<\/a>. These cells are to be produced in the new plant in the US state of Georgia, which was part of the US legal dispute with LG<\/a>.<\/p>\n Update 28 July 2021<\/strong>:\u00a0The location for the announced Ford Ion Park has now been decided. The carmaker will build its global battery centre of excellence in the city of Romulus. Ford Ion Park will house up to “200 engineers, researchers, purchasing and finance managers”, the carmaker said in the latest announcement.<\/p>\n “The new lab will help Ford speed up the battery development process to deliver even more capable, affordable batteries and is part of Ford\u2019s renewed commitment to making Michigan a centerpiece of its focus on EVs,” said Anand Sankaran, director of Ford Ion Park.<\/p>\n The city of Romulus is a suburb of Detroit. The city is home to the Detroit Wayne County Airport, the city’s international airport.<\/p>\n insideevs.com<\/a>,\u00a0ford.com<\/a>, ford.com<\/a> (update)<\/p>\n"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154156","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=154156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}