Car battery production? Europe wants to make up for lost time
Dozens of Gigafactories are being planned. Europe has thrown down the gauntlet to make up for lost time in the production of lithium batteries for cars. Italy will not be left behind.
Car battery production? Europe has thrown down the gauntlet and intends to make up for lost time in the production of lithium batteries for cars by 2030. Italy will not be left behind. In recent years the biggest producers have been China and Japan, but Europe wants to close the gap that has opened up in recent years with the Asian countries, traditionally major producers of car accumulators and more.
For this reason Italy, France, Germany, Norway, the United Kingdom, Spain, Sweden, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia intend to open numerous battery production companies by 2030. The investments in this sector involve companies that compete with one another in the automotive sector but are allied in battery production, such as Stellantis and Mercedes Benz together with Total Energies and Saft, as can be seen from the home page of the OUR SHAREHOLDERS site https://www.acc-emotion.com/ Their goal? As they state on their site, to revolutionise the world of transport with the production of “the EV batteries of the future. High-performance lithium-ion batteries produced at a price that makes green automotive accessible to everyone.”
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How many lithium battery manufacturers will there be in Italy?
There could be at least 3 new plants in Italy:
ACC (Automotive Cells Company) in Termoli, currently at the design stage: it will be the largest Italian producer of the Stellantis group and its partners.
A Gigafactory near Caserta. According to the website of SERI INDUSTRIAL S.p.A (read here), the new plant will produce 7-8 GWh per year
The third will probably be built in Piedmont and will be headed by Italvolt: as its website announces, it will open in 2025, cover an area of 300,000 m2, employ around 3,000 people and, once fully operational, reach a production capacity of up to 45 GWh per year. The company’s CEO, interviewed by local newspapers, expressed the intention of staying in the region, despite some difficulties linked to the original site, which could be ruled out for obstructive reasons, as appears from an article published by RAI NEWS. (read it here)
If they are built, the three companies could produce a combined total of no less than 200 GWh by 2030.
In Europe?
If we look at the whole of Europe, industry experts forecast 35-40 battery manufacturers, which should lead to production of around 1,000 GWh by 2030.
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