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BYD Claims New Battery Factory Will Be 'Largest In the World' (electrek.co)

Posted by BeauHD on from the new-and-improved dept.

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.

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  1. Oh yeah? by CaptainDork · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

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    It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
    1. Re:Oh yeah? by shilly · · Score: 3, Insightful

      It's true we need dispatchable power.
      It's true that wind/solar are not dispatchable.
      But why talk about geo-thermal and nuke in that context? Neither of them are considered dispatchable: they're base-load precisely *because* they take ages to spin up and shut down. They may have characteristics you prefer to wind / solar, but whatever else you like about them, they don't offer dispatchability as a competitive advantage.

      And, this article is all about battery storage... which turns non-dispatchable wind/solar into instantaneously dispatchable power.