When battery manufacturers are planning a new production facility, they consider a number of factors to ensure a successful and efficient operation. Here are five key issues they address: Site Selection and Infrastructure: Choosing the right location for a new production facility is crucial.
By establishing local gigafactories, automakers, and battery manufacturers can reduce supply chain dependencies, ensure a stable and timely supply of batteries, and potentially benefit from government incentives and regulations that promote domestic battery production.
(See The Factory of the Future, BCG Focus, December 2016.) Battery producers must adopt factory-of-the-future concepts to achieve operational excellence. By transitioning to the factory of the future, producers can reduce total battery cell costs per kilowatt-hour (kWh) of capacity by up to 20%.
Manufacturers should invest in state-of-the-art production machinery and automation systems to enhance efficiency, reduce production costs, and maintain high-quality standards. Keeping abreast of the latest advancements in battery manufacturing technology is essential for staying competitive.
Over the long term, it could be economical for automakers to build their own factories to produce customized battery cells for future generations of EVs. As an industry benchmark, production capacity of 10 gigawatt hours per year is considered the lower limit for achieving the scale effects required for cost-competitive production.
Producers can retrofit existing plants with digital enhancements to structures and processes and design new plants as factories of the future. For automakers that manufacture EVs in the US and Western Europe, sourcing from a battery factory of the future is essential to becoming price-competitive with combustion-powered vehicles before 2030.
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