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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!
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!
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.
While I admit the attraction of electric trousers, I hope they eventually electrify a whole pair of pants.
(Sorry, I just couldn't resist)
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>In few years, many electric vehicles will be collapsed
The model S is already on the market for 6 years. how much is a few ?
Yes, I'm left. You have a problem with that?
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.
That's nice and all but Nissan's are fairly unpleasant cars to drive... (quite a few I've driven as rentals they have the worst interior finish, and worst driving handling)
I wish Honda made an EV I might go for that if it were in the 25-30k range something the size of a civic or accord. But the key measure is being able to run at least 300 miles on a charge unfortunately to do so still costs about 18-25k in batteries depending on the size of the car. A smart car with 60mile range has 18kw and that would cost about 3.5k to produce at Tesla's factory, 5x that range would be around 18k at least.
Nissan battery pants. Are they cooled pants or heated pants? Because with the current weather I'd sure buy a pair of cooled pants right now.
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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.
Just hope you don't get a short in your shorts.
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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.
Relative to the population of automobiles in use by the public, the model S isn't 'a few.' It is a very very few.
I have a pair of these too. A little bulky, but great for road trips, because I don’t have to keep stopping to recharge my devices. And when we do pause for dinner, Denny’s lets me plug my butt in for a while.
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?
he is asking about "years" as "few" not cars
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ROFL.. thats a bad troll post, you'll need to do a bit more research to create a good troll
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Wallis and Gromit might be able to help
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That's nice and all but Nissan's are fairly unpleasant cars to drive... (quite a few I've driven as rentals they have the worst interior finish, and worst driving handling)
You clearly have never driven a Toyota. Their interior materials are about the same, but their handling is grossly inferior, and they come with a price premium compared to Nissans. For instance, for what it costs to buy (or rent) a Yaris, you could get a Sentra/Almera, actually going up a whole vehicle class.
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Only if they build a powerwall with said batteries.
My employer's corporate filter totally blocked that.
I should use this sig to advertise my book ISBN-13 : 978-1501515132.
I know, right? If you want it done right, you need to do it yourself, I guess.
As we add more renewables to the grid, it seems likely that we'll be compounding grid instability as the number of connected cars go up. Think of the times that millions of people all hit the road at once, and imagine what that demand on the electric system is going to look like!
Everyone drives to grandma's house for Thanksgiving dinner, plugs in, and that day is overcast with little wind. Suddenly the demand for power is huge from all those cars, in an area where the grid isn't quite so built up for them. Then brownouts, the turkey doesn't cook, can't watch the football game, and everyone is angry, miserable, and drunk. Then they all head home, and when they get there their battery is on E. They all plug in, and boom, the power goes out across the city.
Now all the angry hungry drunk people are even angrier, and as the grid comes back to life, the tens of thousands of hungry cars will just down it again.
If we don't slow down with our renewable energy deployment and electric car sales and tackle some of the fundamental grid issues, this sort of scenario is going to play out all of the time in the coming years. It's time to put the brakes on, pause and think these things through, and then invest in the underlying infrastructure to ensure that our transition to electric cars and renewables goes smoothly.
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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.