Hybrid cars will be used in the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) from this year onwards. At the start of the hybrid era at the Rally Monte Carlo, Schaeffler will present the drive system of its subsidiary Compact Dynamics, which will be used as a standard component in the WRC cars.
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Redwood Materials, founded by ex-Tesla CTO JB Straubel, plans to start up its anode copper foil production facility at the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center in Nevada in the first half of 2022 and begin shipping to customers.
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Nikola has signed a multi-year contract with Proterra for batteries. Nikola Tre BEV and FCEV trucks will forthwith house Proterra battery systems.
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The Volkswagen Group and Bosch want to examine the establishment of a European supplier to equip battery cell factories. This does not involve joint production of battery cells, but rather the development and construction of production facilities with which battery cells are manufactured.
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Ten companies have applied for an Indian government programme to promote the domestic production of battery cells, with plans for factories with a total capacity of 130 GWh – significantly more than the 50 GWh planned by India’s government.
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According to Chinese media, BYD and FAW are planning a production facility for electric car batteries with an annual capacity of 45 GWh in north-eastern China. A joint venture has apparently already been established, but official confirmation is still pending.
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Honda and LG Energy Solution are negotiating the construction of a battery factory for electric vehicles in the USA with a production capacity of 40 gigawatt-hours per year. However, nothing has been decided yet.
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Rheinmetall has founded a joint venture with the American start-up PolyCharge America to develop, produce and market so-called DC link capacitors. These make it possible to make inverters in electric cars smaller, lighter and more heat-resistant.
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Microvast, together with FPT Industrial, will supply the complete battery system for a new electric city and intercity bus from Iveco Bus. The Iveco Bus Crossway LE Electric is expected to be unveiled later this year, with first deliveries possible from mid-2023.
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Tesla has concluded another supply contract for nickel. The company now agreed with Talon Metals Corp. to supply at least 75,000 tonnes of nickel concentrate from the US state of Minnesota over a period of six years.
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The Chinese battery manufacturer CALB (China Lithium Battery Technology) is planning its IPO in Hong Kong. In doing so, CALB wants to raise about one billion US dollars – currently about 880 million euros – to finance further growth.
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Vitesco Technologies has received a major order worth more than one billion euros from an unnamed American car manufacturer. In return, the German company will “supply millions of 800-volt inverters with silicon carbide technology for electric vehicles”.
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Battery cell manufacturer SVOLT has laid the foundation stone for a new battery factory in China. The factory in Yancheng in the Chinese province of Jiangsu is scheduled to go into operation in the first half of 2023 and will have an annual capacity of 22.3 gigawatt-hours.
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Forsee Power now offers its Pulse 2.5 battery module in a version certified by the international classification society DNV for marine use. The Pulse module uses lithium titanate cells.
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The company British Lithium says it has extracted lithium from granite for the first time – initially on a pilot scale. The pilot plant is expected to produce five kilogrammes of lithium carbonate per day from the beginning of this year.
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SVOLT presented its new product category from the lithium iron phosphate battery cell family at a company event. The cell variant with LiFePO4 cell chemistry is expected to be produced from the third quarter of 2022.
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Panasonic battery cells from the Gigafactory in Nevada, operated together with Tesla, are to use more recycled materials in future as part of an expanded partnership with start-up Redwood Materials.
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Vulcan Energy Resources has secured five new licences in the Upper Rhine Graben. In addition to an extraction licence for geothermal energy, Vulcan is expanding its previous exploration area for geothermal energy extraction and lithium by 325 square kilometres with four new exploration licences.
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LG Chem will invest 475.4 billion won (about 354 million euros) in a cathode materials plant, according to the Korean Ministry of Trade. Construction of the plant with a planned annual capacity of 60,000 tonnes in the South Korean city of Gumi is to begin this month.
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The Chinese battery manufacturer CALB (China Lithium Battery Technology) is now also planning a factory in Europe. An annual capacity of 20 GWh is planned. There is no further information on the location and timetable so far – but Germany seems to be in the running.
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Samsung SDI is marketing its current and future batteries for electric vehicles, among others, under the new brand ‘PRiMX’. The brand registration for PRiMX has been completed in South Korea and Europe and is expected to be completed in the USA shortly.
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The Norwegian hydrogen storage specialist Hexagon Purus has been contracted by two major truck manufacturers in North America to deliver complete vehicle integration of two hydrogen-powered class 8 trucks. Hexagon Purus will assemble the trucks with zero-emission systems and deliver the complete trucks.
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The Chinese battery cell manufacturer CATL has started production at its largest plant to date in Fuding near Ningde in Fujian province, which is to offer an annual capacity of 120 GWh when completed. The first phase, which has now started, is said to have a capacity of 60 GWh per year.
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BYD is massively expanding its battery production capacities in China. An investment agreement was signed with the municipal government of Fuzhou in China’s Jiangxi province to build a new battery production facility for electric vehicles.
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The South Korean steel company Posco is investing 830 million US dollars in a new lithium factory in Argentina. This is to be built near the salt lake Salar del Hombre Muerto in northern Argentina from the first half of 2022.
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Proterra is building another production facility for battery systems for use in electric vehicles. The new plant is being built in Greer, South Carolina, near Proterra’s electric bus manufacturing facility in Greenville, and is expected to be operational in the second half of 2022.
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Volkswagen has now completed the increase in its stake in Chinese battery cell partner Gotion High-Tech announced last year. Volkswagen is now the largest shareholder in the Chinese battery specialist.
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LG Energy Solution and Siemens have agreed to cooperate in the field of battery production. This is particularly about the digitalisation of production processes. The first joint project has already been decided.
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The Swedish battery cell manufacturer Northvolt is setting up a 50:50 joint venture with Portugal’s energy company Galp. Under the direction of the joint venture Aurora, a lithium conversion plant will be built in Portugal. The future location of the plant is still under discussion.
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Lightning eMotors, a company specialising in electric vehicles for commercial fleet use, will in future also rely on batteries from CATL. For Lightning eMotors, this is the second battery order within a few weeks.
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