On June 28, the BMW Group announced that its Cell Manufacturing Competence Centre in Parsdorf, east of Munich, will be officially opened this autumn.
In 2019, the BMW Group Battery Cell Competence Centre was officially opened to promote the development of the BMW Group in battery cell technology, focusing on improving battery performance, such as energy density, peak power, service life, safety, load characteristics, etc.
It is understood that the upcoming BMW Group battery cell manufacturing technology center covers an area of about 15,000 square meters, with a total investment of about 170 million euros in the initial development stage. After the completion of the first phase of construction, the technology center will put into operation the electrode production system, including the battery electrode production part, the separate metering and mixing of graphite and lithium transition metal oxides; and the subsequent coating, rolling and Divide. In the second phase, the Manufacturing Technology Center will install systems for battery assembly and activation (formation). Here, electrodes and other structural components are assembled into cells and activated (formed) and quality checked.
BMW Group said that in 2022, BMW Group will mass-produce and trial-produce 15 pure electric models, covering about 90% of the luxury car segment, and present 5 pure electric products in the Chinese market: including the innovative BMW iX, BMW i4, BMW iX3, the new BMW i3 and the innovative BMW i7. By the end of 2025, the BMW Group is expected to deliver a total of 2 million pure electric vehicles worldwide; by then, one out of every four new cars sold in China will be pure electric models
