{"id":50062,"date":"2023-05-19T12:03:25","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T16:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=50062"},"modified":"2023-05-19T12:03:25","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T16:03:25","slug":"panasonic-new-battery-plants-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=50062","title":{"rendered":"Panasonic To Build New Battery Plants In North America"},"content":{"rendered":"

During the Group Strategy Briefing on May 18, Panasonic Group CEO Yuki Kusumi announced that automotive batteries will be a priority investment area.<\/p>\n

The Japanese manufacturer acknowledges strong demand for EV batteries (specifically for cylindrical-type cells) and high market growth potential, especially in North America.<\/p>\n

It’s expected that the company will build a few new battery plants later this decade – at least two in North America.<\/p>\n

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Panasonic noted that its current generation of battery cells already has more than three times higher volumetric energy density (about 800 watt-hours per liter) than the first generation 30 years ago (in 1994). The goal by 2030 is to achieve 1,000 Wh\/L.<\/p>\n

Panasonic’s cathode chemistry was the first to achieve less than 5 percent cobalt content (among high-nickel NCA\/NCM cathodes, as we understand) and according to Panasonic, a “cobalt free” cathode is within reach. Interestingly, nickel content will decrease as well.<\/p>\n

One of the most important things is that Panasonic supplied batteries for some two million electric vehicles, without a single recall related to batteries.<\/p>\n

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The company currently operates one battery factory in North America – at the Tesla Gigafactory 1 in Nevada, and another one is under construction in Kansas (both related to 2170-type cylindrical cells).<\/p>\n

The plan is to expand the manufacturing of EV batteries in North America, although we also know that the new 4680-type batteries are slightly delayed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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As we can see below, Panasonic is expanding its research and development infrastructure in Japan to improve battery technology and bring next-generation solutions to the market.<\/p>\n

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By March 2031, Panasonic intends to increase its total EV battery production capacity from about 50\u00a0gigawatt-hours (GWh) per year to 200 GWh per year, out of which roughly half will be the all-new 4680-type cylindrical battery cells.<\/p>\n

That’s a 300 percent increase in a matter of eight years, which is significant, but not even close to making Panasonic the world’s top EV battery player (by volume) again.<\/p>\n

Currently, the company has two main production bases and one under construction, plus the expansion project at one of the sites in Japan:<\/p>\n

It seems that all new battery factories, specifically in North America, will be related to the 4680-type battery cells.<\/p>\n

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During the Group Strategy Briefing on May 18, Panasonic Group CEO Yuki Kusumi announced that automotive batteries will be a priority investment area. The Japanese manufacturer acknowledges strong demand for EV batteries (specifically for cylindrical-type cells) and high market growth potential, especially in North America. It’s expected that the company will build a few new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}