General Motors (GM) and Battery Partner LG Energy Solution to start the commercial production of cheaper cells for future electric vehicles in a US system from 2028, the companies announced on Tuesday.
The cells will have a lithium-manner-rich chemistry (LMR), which, according to GM, is lower than the nickel cells used today, but still give customers the desired range in future electrical trucks and SUVs in full.
The cells are also prismatic compared to the current bag structure, which reduces the number of parts in the battery by more than 50 percent.
Detroit’s car manufacturer, which now has 12 electric vehicles in its line -up, is trying to reduce its battery costs in order to enable cost parity with its gas -powered products by adding new types of cells and chemia in these cells.
“We take on flexible chemias for the best balance between range, performance and affordability,” said Kurt Kelty, Vice President of GM from Battery, drive and sustainability, during a media meeting about the announcement.
“My mission here is to bring as many electric vehicles onto the street as possible. We have to get the pricing (internal vehicles for burning engines), and then this thing will simply take off.”
LG Energy Solution is a battery company based in South Korea, which also works with Stellantis in the massive Nextstar Energy EV battery factory in Windsor, OnT. Some production is already underway because workers put together batteries in groups that are known as modules last year. It is expected to finally employ 2,500 people.
Despite the news on Tuesday that Honda postponed plans for his work in Ontario by at least two years, the next facilities of the next start will remain on the right track. However, an opening date for complete production must still be determined.
The LMR cells for the GM system are produced in one of the two LG-GM joint venture-cultivated battery systems in Ohio and Tennessee. With the prismatic LMR cells, GM expects more than 640 kilometers of range in a single charge of an electric car, “while the costs for the battery are significantly reduced,” said Kelty.
GM expects the costs for the battery to reduce $ 30 per kilowatt hour in 2025, but it did not say how much its costs are per kilowatt.
GM also plans to offer vehicles with lithium-iron-phosphate-based cells, which are also lower costs than the nickel cells. Kelty said GM will soon be published further information.
While GM wants to be the first car manufacturer that uses LMR batteries commercially in its electric vehicles, Crosstown competitor Ford Motor also works to use the technology, a blog that has recently written by Electrified Propulsion Engineering, which has written his director of electrified propulsions.
