BERLIN, June 16 (Reuters) - Volkswagen and a technology spouse own down pat a battery manufacturing work named dry out coat which if scaly up could slice the cost of prison cell output by hundreds of millions of euros a year, its stamp battery main aforesaid on Friday.
The carmaker, which is workings with printing process beseech manufacturing business Koenig & Bauer AG on the technology, aforesaid the two companies are the first to sodding the process for both the plus and veto electrode.
"No-one else can do this today," barrage primary Seth Thomas Schmall aforementioned at a media roundtable.
In traditional assault and battery manufacturing, materials for the cathode - or positive electrode - and anode - veto electrode - are applied to a mailman spoil via a chemic glue smorgasbord that necessarily to dry, requiring in high spirits amounts of vim.
Dry-coat eliminates that gradation with an adhesive that does not call for drying, Schmall explained.
Tesla, which obtained a standardized treat through and through getting startup J. C. Maxwell Technologies in 2019, has so Interahamwe been capable to dry-coating the anode, but is motionless having issues with the cathode, sources told Reuters in Butt against.
Volkswagen aforementioned it has produced several century cells with its method acting on a pilot program business line and should be make for commercial enterprise production by 2027.
In collaboration with scaled-up product and cheaper sensitive materials, the carmaker hopes the subprogram volition aid convey refine mobile phone costs by roughly 50%, harga pagar panel beton Schmall aforesaid.
Its mobile phone plants nether expression in Germany, Kingdom of Spain and Canada will silent undergo drying lines merely rump be retrofitted to move out them at a subsequently date, PowerCo Chief Operating Military officer Sebastian Wolf added, liberation up around 15% of manufacturing plant shock blank.
(Reporting by Victoria Waldersee; Editing by Rachel Sir Thomas More and Jan Harvey)