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BYD Claims New Battery Factory Will Be 'Largest In the World' (electrek.co)
China's largest electric vehicle manufacturer, BYD, is opening a new battery factory that it claims will be the "largest in the world." Electrek reports: The factory is located in the western province of Qinghai and while it was "opened" this week, it is still under construction and BYD aims to complete it by the end of next year. BYD President and Chairman Wang Chuanfu said at the opening ceremony (via NDTV): "Electrification is a done deal as several countries have announced a deadline for the sale of internal combustion engine cars to end. Electric vehicles are on the cusp of another boom."
With a capacity of 24 GWh, this new battery factory should enable them to significantly increase production with a total battery production capacity of 60 GWh. BYD focuses on the production of prismatic LiFePO4 battery cells, different from most of the auto industry's NCA and NMC battery cells.
With a capacity of 24 GWh, this new battery factory should enable them to significantly increase production with a total battery production capacity of 60 GWh. BYD focuses on the production of prismatic LiFePO4 battery cells, different from most of the auto industry's NCA and NMC battery cells.
Terafactory!
LiFePO4sho, but think of all the good vibrations this will power.
China's largest electric vehicle manufacturer, BYD
That should be the world's largest electric vehicle manufacturer, BYD. Their EC180 is the best selling EV in the world, by a large margin. That might upset the Teslarati here, though, so i guess BeauHD took the easy way out...
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
In few years, many electric vehicles will be collapsed for few available electric stations and few suppliers of electricity.
I think that for solving this problem, it will require many TeraWh of energy supply for these electric vehicles.
I presume the 24GWh figure quoted is production capacity. If so, is that per day, per month, annually, what?
Reading the Fine Article it appears that it's an annual production figure but it's still not spelled out anywhere I could see. If so that's enough battery capacity for about 300,000 Tesla battery packs annually or maybe 500,000 cars from other manufacturers, including plug-in hybrids. A good start, but considering the numbers of cars built and sold each year around the world it's only a good start. That doesn't take into account the greater battery demand electric trucks, buses etc. either.
Well, the Yanks are Trumping that by forbidding coal plants closing, expanding oil drilling to national preserves, and deep water.
Also in the works is deregulating pollution and gas mileage standards in patriotic non-China, made in America Great Again, America First non-electric transportation.
Suck it, Chins.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
And there's Nissan's battery pant here in the USA. Not being built - but fully functional ( Notice the date on the article).
We'll never get any real news, no matter what. They just can't stop lying. ae911truth dot org
According to all the articles in 2016, Tesla plans to build 500,000 Model 3 in 2018. They issued and sold an additional $2 billion in stock based on this plan.
Somehow Tesla's actual performance never resembles the plans they announce.
It doesn't seem like this factory is anywhere near the point of cranking out batteries but it will still be good to have another battery factory. It may not be for batteries most people use but changing the type of batteries you make faster than going from not making batteries. The world is in dire need of more lithium batteries and at a lower cost, so a new battery plant is always welcome.
My hope is that one of these giant battery factories gets all the kinks worked out of it's automation and that they build ten and then a hundred more battery factories because we desperately need cheaper batteries if we are going to switch to electric cars.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Since the recent news that the Chinese are single-handedly destroying all efforts to fix the hole in the ozone layer, and as a by-product destroying any evidence that international co-operative action is practicable to fix other bigger problems, namely CO2 and dumped heat:
So I must ask: any assurance that there are no CFCs in any part of the BYD manufacturing processes, including supplier and subcontractor inputs?
Anything "Western China" seems to be dodgy brand.
The shelf life of LiFePO4 is substantially longer than Li-Ion. That translates to laptops and cell phones that you don't end up replacing after a few years years because the battery that used to last two days is now only lasting two hours.
With a capacity of 24 GWh, this new battery factory should enable them to significantly increase production with a total battery production capacity of 60 GWh.
Per day? per second? per year? or lifetime total? Is 60 GWh the total production for all the factories the company owns or the final capacity of the completed factory?
Be careful.
One cannot forget Bhopal. Just have a plan in place to protect people from dying.
Mod this idiot down
Want to put money on it?
Plenty of idiocy for you to both be wrong
Not only are they not designed that way, but the largest geothermal plant in the USA is at The Geysers in California, just over the hill from Old Faithful. OF is no longer faithful; steam emissions from the geyser have reduced over the years. The same is true of steam at The Geysers, and they have been pumping primary-treated sewage into the ground to keep the steam coming for quite some years now. This provably increased seismicity in the region, so Calpine had to set up a fund and pay hundreds of millions of dollars in quake damages. The steam comes out mixed with toxics and radioactives, some of which collect on the turbine blades and some of which go straight into the atmosphere. The stuff that collects on the blades is pressure-washed into a pit, which is occasionally capped off with concrete. Before they were collecting the slurry in drums and burying it in a field on Butts Canyon Rd. (out of Middletown, CA) which produced a superfund site. There were a bunch of calves being born with two heads, and all that kind of fun stuff. They eventually dug up the contaminated soil, put in a rubber liner, and re-buried it. This area is highly seismically active even without the geothermal system, so sooner or later that will just become a problem again. In spite of (or perhaps because of?) all of this, the plant at The Geysers has been perpetually under production and over budget.
Geothermal power in the USA is a terrible boondoggle, and people calling for more of it don't know what they are talking about.
Lithium-Polymer's are the usual Lithium-Cobalt based chemistry. Chemically no different from a laptop battery. 3.6-3.7 volts per cell. These have the highest energy density and are prone to spontaneously going on fire.
Lithium-Phosphates are a distinct separate battery group using rare-earths and with no Cobalt. 3.1-3.2 volts per cell. Energy density is closer to NiMH batteries and don't have thermal issues.
Last year the big companies produced 75 million automobiles. Tesla produced less than 100 thousand.
Real car companies: 75,000,000
Tesla: 98,000
The car manufacturers care less about Tesla than they care about the weather.
> forcing the other manufacturers to start really pushing out electric cars.
You realize Nissan sold more electric cars BEFORE Tescam showed up than Musk ever has, right? The largest manufacturer of electric cars is BYD, and they were the largest before PT Musk Barnum starting pitching his stock.