您将学到什么：
- 谁是坚固的力量？
- 固态电池与传统锂离子的好处
- 投资者固体权力的其他电动汽车发展。
BMW，福特和Volta Energy Technologies是一家风险投资公司，从美国能源部的Argonne National Laboratory中脱颖而出Solid Power. The investment will see BMW and Ford receive production solid-state lithium-ion batteries for electric cars next year. Solid-state batteries promise to offer greater energy density than the lithium-ion batteries that are currently used.
固体功率已经在使用所谓的行业标准设备上的大量，卷到滚动飞行员线上生产20个AH固态锂离子电池。
该公司称，固体功率使用的基于硫化物的细胞可提供超过50％的能量密度。该牢房已由宝马集团和福特去年年底验证，两家公司将获得全面的100-AH牢房，用于汽车资格测试和即将到来的车辆的开发。将于2030年到达的车辆。
固态电池取代了用实心导电材料在常规锂离子电池中发现的液体或凝胶形式的电解质。它可以更轻，具有更大的能量密度，并以较低的成本提供更多范围。由于缺乏易燃组件，固态电池还可以提高安全性。
“By simplifying the design of solid-state versus lithium-ion batteries, we'll be able to increase vehicle range, improve interior space and cargo volume, deliver lower costs and better value for customers, and more efficiently integrate this kind of solid-state battery-cell technology into existing lithium-ion cell production processes,” said Ted Miller, Ford's manager of Electrification Subsystems and Power Supply Research.
“当我们的能源和商业化专家团队发现他们不仅具有有希望的技术，而且对生产性的根本关注时，Volta就早就投资了固体权力。毕竟，如果无法以可接受的成本进行大规模生产，那么突破性的电池将不会在市场上找到一席之地。
Invested in Electric
在过去的一年中，福特推出了2021 Mustang Mach-E Electric，其电动F-150闪电计划于明年到达。宝马目前有电i3on sale in the U.S. and itsi4轿车和IX跨界are on its near-future introduction list. BMW said that by 2023 it will have fully electric models available for almost all of its market segments.
Ford previously indicated that it will invest $22 billion in electrification through 2025. The automaker is spending $185 million on a lab to develop new manufacturing techniques for lithium-ion and solid-state battery packs for EVs. This 200,000 sq.-ft. facility will include pilot-scale equipment for electrode, cell, and array design. It also will pilot new manufacturing techniques that would allow Ford to scale battery-cell designs with novel materials once the company vertically integrates battery cells and batteries.
Ford’s lab is called "Ford Ion Park." The company is building on nearly two decades of battery expertise by centralizing a cross-functional team of 150 experts in battery technology development, research, manufacturing, planning, purchasing, quality, and finance. The project also will involve work on improving the full production cycle, including research into the mining of needed resources and battery recycling.
Anand Sankaran leads the Ford Ion Park team as its new director. The 30-year Ford veteran is a 1999 Henry Ford Technology Award winner for his electrification work at the Ford Research Lab, and has been Ford director of electrified systems engineering.
In addition to the Ford Ion Park project, the Battery Benchmarking and Test Laboratory in Allen Park, Mich., opened by Ford in late 2020 has 150 test chambers for different types of battery cells. The lab houses battery cell and pack test rooms, test benches and benchmarking facilities to support battery cell design validation, controls calibration, pack development, and pilot battery-pack projects with different chemistries. The lab team can replicate the performance of full-scale production batteries under extreme weather and customer use cases, speeding implementation in future vehicles.
Solid Power, based near Denver, Colo., earlier raised $5 million from BMW iVentures. Its partnership with the Munich-based automaker began in 2016. With its newest investments, Ford and BMW will own equal stakes in Solid Power, which was established in 2012 as a spinout from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
