General Motors is planning to establish four new battery factories in the United States, with a total capacity of 140 GWh per year. Additionally, Stellantis, the multinational automotive conglomerate, is in the process of building a new factory in Indiana, with an initial annual production capacity of 23 GWh.
And despite cell pushes and subsidies that drive the sector, for the full transformation what we really need is to ensure that batteries are also competitive on the market and building at scale fast, and to continuously reduce capex [capital expenditures] to actually allow us to get there. Daphne Luchtenberg: Fantastic.
But for this future to materialize, the supply of lithium-ion batteries required to power these vehicles—not to mention meet the rapidly growing storage needs of electric power grids and consumer electronics—will have to increase on the order of tenfold by the end of this decade. And that’s a conservative case. Right now, we’re well off this pace.
New research reveals that battery manufacturing will be more energy-efficient in future because technological advances and economies of scale will counteract the projected rise in future energy demand.
This includes logistics to get material to the factory and to get the cells out. This is using all renewable electricity; simplify and delete anything you can. I think the battery pack or the battery itself should be simpler. I think the factory should be simpler; you should fight to use less pipe, use less electricity.
According to the Department of Energy, more than $120 billion of investments in the US battery manufacturing and supply chain have been announced so far – nearly $45 billion pre-IRA and around $85 billion post-IRA launch.
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