Solid-State EV Battery Bingo Card Filling Fast: Dongfeng Motor, Nissan-Renault Numbers Come Up
The hints dropped by GM about its solid-state battery intentions were more than a tease. Last October, GM announced plans for something called, which it billed as “an all-new facility that will significantly expand the company’s battery technology operations and accelerate development and commercialization of longer range, more affordable electric vehicle batteries.”
“The facility will play a pivotal role in advancing GM’s vision of an all-electric future and help pave the way to widespread adoption of EVs, building on more than a decade of advanced battery development at GM Research and Development. GM will also use the facility to integrate the work of GM-affiliated battery innovators, helping the company to reach its stated goal of at least 60 percent lower battery costs with the next generation of Ultium,” GM explained.
“The Wallace Center will allow GM to accelerate new technologies like lithium-metal, silicon and solid-state batteries, along with production methods that can quickly be deployed at battery cell manufacturing plants, including GM’s joint ventures with LG Energy Solution in Lordstown, Ohio, and Spring Hill, Tennessee, and other undisclosed locations in the U.S.,” GM said, leaving all doubts about its solid state intentions to rest.
GM emphasized that the Wallace Center research team will “experiment with many types of future battery chemistry in addition to lithium-metal, including pure silicon and solid-state, along with different cell form factors.” In case you were wondering about the Wallace name, that would be GM director Bill Wallace, who oversaw the company re-emergence as an electric vehicle maker after the demise of the ill fated EV-1 at the turn of the 21st century. Wallace was instrumental in the launch of
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