the men of the East cell specialists have glory days.
Just a month after the Volkswagen came out, that you had earmarked 370 billion. crowns to buy the battery cells, the Daimler group, which among other things is behind the competitor Mercedes-Benz, set aside a little over 149 billion. crowns for the purchase of the technology.
Bilgiganterne can not yet produce batteries for electric cars from scratch, but is dependent on that sub-contractors are, for example, for the cells.
This technology has a handful of asian companies almost a monopoly on, and the German bilgiganter expect, apparently, that it becomes by such a piece yet. At Daimler, it is estimated at least to the 149 billion. crowns must be used to buy battery cells towards 2030.
It writes the media Automotive News.
Daimler has plans to launch no less than 130 personbilsvarianter by 2022, which is driven by power in one way or another – be it fully electric cars, pluginhybrider or cars with hybrid technology on 48 volts.
in Order to realize this ambition is Daimler have already started to build eight batterifabrikker in Germany, China and the UNITED states, where the finished batteries are assembled – but not to be built from scratch. The group writes in a press release, the first factory in the German Groups already have started to serieproducere the batteries.
– Our electric offensive will be to increase the go. After having invested billions of euros in the development of the electric fleet and the expansion of our global batterinetværk. we now take the next step, says Daimler boss Dieter Zetsche in a press release and adds:
– to buy battery cells for more than 20 billion. euro, we are continuing consistent with the transformation which needs to send our business into the electric future.
The first Mercedes-Benz passenger car, which will be built exclusively as an electric car, SUV an EQC. It was showcased earlier in the autumn and is expected already to hit the roads next year.
Much depends on the SUV and the siblings that will follow on the heels of the. Daimler reckon with the fact, that the battery-powered cars constitute between 15 and 25 percent of the total sales already in the year 2025
It also places great demands on the batteriproduktionen, and Daimler researcher, therefore, already now in a new generation of batteries. The hope is that, in the long term can be less dependent on subcontractors and the rare and expensive materials, which today are being used to produce the cells.
According to Automotive News, it applies, for example, the element cobalt, which is mainly mined in the Congo. In the electrical EQC model will cobalt constitute 20 percent of the cells, while the ingredient supposedly will only constitute 10 percent of the electric cars, which is a little further on in the German group’s production plan.