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Report: Samsung is making big strides towards solid-state battery mass production
Samsung’s battery division, like most other big tech companies these days, is tirelessly working on a new solid-state battery tech and according to people familiar with the matter, the firm has made big progress lately. Recently, Xiaomi also confirmed working on solid-state battery technology and that it’s making progress, but QuantumScape is perhaps the most promising manufacturer. It’s already working with select car manufacturers and has supplied its partners with prototypes to test with.
Samsung has been working on an oxide-based solid-state battery prototype for over a decade now and allegedly made a breakthrough recently. But the interesting bit is that two separate divisions will try to incorporate the new tech into actual products.
Samsung’s Electro-Mechanics department will try to deliver solid-state batteries tailored towards smart and mobile devices. Samsung SDI, on the other hand, will focus on developing a solid-state battery with sulfide electrolytes for the EV sector.
Solid state batteries improve the energy density, allowing larger capacities to fit within the same volume, but they are also beneficial to a battery’s long term endurance. They are expected to usher in a new era in smartphone development and EV mobility.
GM’s 2025 EV Plans May Be Impacted By Battery Shortages: Report
Years ago, General Motors talked of launching a plethora of new EV models and dialing up production. CEO Mary Barra continues to share that the goal is to be capable of producing 1 million EVs in North America by 2025 on the way to topping Tesla as the EV sales leader. However, its US battery factories are making slow progress, and thus far, it hasn’t released the vast majority of those new electric cars.
According to a recent analysis compiled for Reuters, General Motors‘ EV production by 2025 could be limited to less than 600,000 units thanks to battery bottlenecks. AutoForecast Solutions notes that manufacturing over a half million electric vehicles in 2025 will be no easy task based on GM’s battery production plans.
Meanwhile, the Big Three automaker insists it hasn’t changed its guidance. The targets do, however, include cumulative EV production from 2022 to 2024 as recently clarified by CEO Mary Barra. AutoForecast Solutions estimates that GM will produce about 76,000 EVs in North America in 2023 and 328,000 in 2024. The automaker has not officially shared its actual production targets for 2024 or 2025.
GM will rely on three battery factories in the US. The first already opened in Ohio, and the second factory in Tennessee is due to begin making batteries in early 2024. The third factory is expected to open in Michigan a year later. All the domestic EVs GM has been touting for years will use Ultium battery packs built at one of the three factories in the US, which together should eventually be able to provide enough packs for 1.35 million EVs annually.
That said, with one of the three factories not even opening until 2025, and the other sometime the year before, it seems almost impossible that all three could be ramped up to full production capacity by 2025. Still, GM reiterated less than a year ago that it will have enough materials to produce 1 million electric cars per year in North America by 2025. This is to say it will be capable, but not necessarily put into practice by that time.
