Volkswagen's battery engineering laboratory located in the Chattanooga Engineering and Planning Center in Tennessee began construction. The new facility, announced earlier this year, will complement the 564,000-square-foot electric vehicle production expansion project and 198,000-square-foot battery assembly facility under construction in Chattanooga.
Volkswagen will be able to develop/optimize, test and verify electric vehicle battery cells and battery packs on site, and then start producing battery packs and cars in the United States starting from Volkswagen ID.4 in 2022. The battery cells will be provided by SK Innovation Factory in Georgia, which is currently under construction.
"In addition to improving its engineering capabilities in the region, the engineering laboratory is also part of Volkswagen's efforts to localize all aspects of vehicle development and production, which will reduce production costs and development cycles. "
" Volkswagen engineers will test The integration of battery components, batteries and vehicles, and find more ways to integrate locally produced components into the production process. "Z2z
This battery laboratory costs about 22 million US dollars and will employ 25 engineers. According to the company, the laboratory will be equipped with the following experimental environment:
·pressure and immersion tester
·corrosion chamber
·five explosion-proof climate chambers
·a customized, two-ton multi-axis vibration table for Test the integrity of vehicle components under some of the harshest conditions.
·Regenerative load circulators can feed energy back to the building or the grid to achieve the highest possible efficiency.
Volkswagen currently has five battery factories in the world:
·Brunswick, Germany
·Wolfsburg
·Shanghai, China
·China Changchun
·Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA The author of Zhijia Chejiahao does not represent the views and positions of Zhijia.
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