Report: GM To Partner With Samsung SDI On Cylindrical Batteries via insideevs.com
The articles, based on unofficial sources, say that the two companies might sign a Memorandum of Understanding this week .. GM and LGES have so far launched three Ultium Cells battery projects .The plants with LGES were focused on a pouch battery form factor, while another rumor was thatAs we understand, the reason to add an additional EV battery partner would be to use some kind of new, cylindrical batteries that the existing battery partner is not willing to supply .
Here is where Samsung SDI comes into play. The South Korean manufacturer was supplying mostly prismatic battery cells and smaller capacity cylindrical cells , which LGES also has in its offer. However,Unofficial reports suggest that the GM-Samsung SDI deal will result in a joint venture factory located in Michigan, which might have an annual manufacturing capacity of 30-50 gigawatt-hours of battery cells . Such a factory would cost at least a few billion.
It will be very interesting to see whether the switch will also require the development of an all-new EV platform, or if the Ultium platform is flexible enough to accommodate the new type of cells/modules or even cell-to-pack design.
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