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Inside, ONE, Our Next Energy's New Michigan Factory

There was something about a ONE-plant for BC - the first battery plant in Western Canada, but I believe it is a lot smaller scale then this one in MI.
It has been in the news here that Ford are working on converting the Oakville plant to build the Explorer EV - cells will come from the Kentucky plant from what I have read. Great to see expanding N.American capacity and manufacturing.
 
RandyP said:
Check this out, a new LiFePO4 cell giga plnt in the US:
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What was interesting to me was how he talked about a conformal padding between each cell that handles the 0.5mm of expansion from each side. So much more solid structurally compared an LG pouch cell.
 
1 gigawatt capacity in 3 years is not much , average about 80 cars a week worth at 80kwh battery size.
 
lets see, a gigawatt-hr is 1,000,000,000 watt-h or 1,000,000kwh per year.
1,000,000kwh /70kwh per car is about 142,000 cars 14,000 cars per year, 270 cars per week.
 
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I thought he mentioned something in car battery equivalents but they are going to be doing basically Tesla mega pack type utility support systems with 3.5 MWh per container in their latest expansion space.
 
Brucey said:
I thought he mentioned something in car battery equivalents but they are going to be doing basically Tesla mega pack type utility support systems with 3.5 MWh per container in their latest expansion space.
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Didn't they explain they have different cells for different applications, from Autos to grid-scale storage?
The grid-scale stuff is the last of a series of expansions they have planned it seemed.
 
OffGridForGood said:
Didn't they explain they have different cells for different applications, from Autos to grid-scale storage?
The grid-scale stuff is the last of a series of expansions they have planned it seemed.
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Yes basically right now it's just a pilot line to get processes optimised and suppliers validated and workforce trained. Then they build a gigafactory and scale it up much larger.
 
OffGridForGood said:
lets see, a gigawatt-hr is 1,000,000,000 watt-h or 1,000,000kwh per year.
1,000,000kwh /70kwh per car is about 142,000 cars per year, 2700 cars per week.
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Its 1 gigawatt in 3 years from the video. it is just a pilot plant.

your calc is off by a factor of 10 and 3 years.
1,000,000 kwh /70 kwh per car is about 142,000 cars per year, 2700 cars per week.

1,000,000 kwh /70 kwh per car is about 14285 cars / 3 years = 4761 cars per year / 52 weeks = 91 cars per week
 
Ohio is about 2 years ahead for a similar project.

This article is about the general local economic impact but gives an idea about getting up and running.

www.bridgemi.com

Lordstown, Ohio gives Michigan hint of how EV battery plant changes economy | Bridge Michigan

Michigan cheered news in January that it will get a $2.5 billion battery plant in Lansing to supply electric vehicles made by General Motors. A similar plant nearly ready to open in Lordstown gives a glimpse into what that could mean.
www.bridgemi.com www.bridgemi.com

I posted this a bit over 3 years ago :

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GM building $2.3 Billion battery plant in Ohio

See here: https://www.wfmj.com/story/42791259/gm-expanded-ev-plan-adds-significance-to-lordstown-battery-plant
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Note that the Ultium system is NCMO chemistry :

en.wikipedia.org

Ultium - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
 
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