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BMW | Pilot Plant for Battery Cells
Welding a battery cell housing
The BMW Group is planning the construction of a pilot plant at Parsdorf near Munich (Germany) where lithium-ion battery cells will be manufactured. The new site is scheduled to come into ope ration at the end of 2022. It will cover an area of 14,000 m² and employ around 50 people. The goal is to exploit the potential of the entire value-added process and to create a closed, sustainable material cycle for battery cells that includes the selection of the materials and the composition and design of the
battery cells, together with production and recycling. “The new pilot plant will enable us to close the final gap in the value chain which covers battery cell development, the production of modules and powertrain components and the installation of fully assembled high-voltage batteries at our vehicle plants,” says Milan Nedeljkovic´, member of the board of management of BMW AG. The pilot plant will work closely with the battery cell competence center which opened in Munich in November 2019.
Mercedes-Benz is pooling all its powertrain expertise in the company’s new MercedesBenz Drive Systems business unit. The aim is to exploit synergies and speed up the move toward carbon-neutral mobility and digitization. For the first time, the new business unit brings together under one roof all the teams from development and production, plus related areas and group-wide cross-disciplinary functions. As an internal systems supplier, the unit will be responsible for engines, gearboxes, batteries and electric drives, together with the accompanying hardware and software. The unit will be headed by Frank Deiß, who is also responsible for powertrain production for Mercedes-Benz Cars and the site in Untertürkheim (Germany). He reports to Markus Schäfer, member of the board of management of Daimler AG and Mercedes-Benz AG, and also holds the position of Chairman of the Executive Board of Mercedes-Benz Drive Systems. The other members of the executive board are Torsten Eder, Head of Powertrain Development, and Andreas Friedrich, Head of eDrive Development.
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Mercedes-Benz | Restructuring the Drive Systems Division
Frank Deiß, Michael Häberle, Chairman of the works council of the Untertürkheim plant, Torsten Eder and Andreas Friedrich (left to right)
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Norsk e-Fuel AS | Power-to-liquid on a Large Scale
Power-to-liquid technology enables the production of renewable fuels in large quantities
The European industrial consortium Norsk e-Fuel AS has announced that it will be industrializing Power-to-Liquid technology (PtL) for the European market. The world’s first commercial project of this kind will convert Norway’s extensive renewable electricity resources into renewable fuels. Using a single-stage co-electrolysis process, renewable electricity, water and CO2 captured from the air and from unavoidable CO2 sources will be transformed into synthe-
sis gas. Additional refining processes will then be carried out to produce renewable fuels that c
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