December 1, 2022: The BMW group mentioned on November 25 that it’ll construct a high-voltage battery meeting plant at its automobile manufacturing facility in Debrecen, Hungary, the place it’s investing greater than €2 billion ( $2 billion) by 2025.
Markus Fallböhmer, the senior VP of battery manufacturing at BMW mentioned that the ‘BMW iFactory’ will strengthen the “shut hyperlink between battery meeting and automobile manufacturing”.
In Debrecen, next-generation battery cells will probably be assembled right into a battery housing, which is able to later be built-in into the underbodies of the automobiles, Fallböhmer mentioned.
BMW says that the official begin of manufacturing for the sixth era batteries in 2025 – the identical as the beginning of auto manufacturing.
All batteries for automobiles manufactured in Debrecen will probably be assembled on the plant website, which is able to span over 140,000 m² in whole.
In August CATL, the Chinese language lithium battery big – and traditionally an necessary provider of BMW – introduced that it plans to speculate €7.34 billion ($7.5 billion) within the building of a 100 GWh EV battery plant in Debrecen.
In keeping with BMW, its cell producers will use cobalt, lithium and nickel together with a share of secondary materials – “uncooked supplies that aren’t newly mined”, but it surely didn’t present particulars.
The automobile big says that the battery manufacturing can solely be a renewable power supply and the batteries will enhance the corporate’s vary of Neue Klasse automobiles by as much as 30% and improve the charging pace of the identical that share.
