Chery Claims to Have 1 GWh Solid-State Battery Production Line

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Lithium-ion batteries have led us into this contemporary electrical automobile period, and fully dominate the business. There’s been hype and enthusiasm for future-gen batteries for years, and none extra so than solid-state batteries. However these have been trapped in labs and largely a know-how of hope and hype. Maybe that’s altering now.

Chery, a big Chinese language automaker, now claims to have a GWh-level all-solid-state battery manufacturing line below improvement in Wuhu, Anhui Province. That is being developed collectively by Anhui Anwa New Vitality Co., Ltd. and the Wuhu Financial and Technological Improvement Zone. “The Anhui Daily reported that containers of equipment were delivered on November 18 to the factory site located in the Wuhu Economic and Technological Development Zone,” CarNewsChina writes.

The location has the capability for a 5 GWh battery manufacturing facility. This primary section is being developed on 150 mu (100,000 sq. meters) and value “just” $1.25 billion. It’s the primary of some phases deliberate for the manufacturing unit.

“Compared with traditional batteries, solid-state batteries are safer, more environmentally friendly, and the energy density will be greatly improved,” mentioned Gao Lixin, normal supervisor of Anhui Anwa New Vitality Know-how Co., Ltd. That is the dream — extra environmentally pleasant, higher, and cheaper.

Whereas the vitality density of the primary solid-state batteries deliberate for manufacturing at this manufacturing unit is anticipated to be 280 Wh/kg, firm expectations are {that a} second-generation model of the solid-state batteries, coming subsequent yr, will attain 400 Wh/kg. After which a 3rd technology is anticipated to have 500 Wh/kg vitality density and attain market in 2027.

Does all of this imply different firms will likely be producing solid-state batteries quickly? Is the Chery information official, or extra hopes and hype? It’s very arduous to inform at this level, however all of the indicators are promising. We’ll see if these batteries are included in mass-market electrical automobile fashions.