The American multinational automaker Ford Motor company accelerates R&D of battery cell technology which includes battery manufacturing as well.
The company has also announced a new global battery centre of excellence called Ford Ion Park.
The Ford Ion park Team which is in progress has $185 million collaborative learning lab in southwest Michigan which is also exploring innovation opportunities across all aspects which includes mines of recycling and working with all teams with in ford.
The lab which expands about 200,000 sq-ft will include pilot-scale equipment for electrode, cell and array design and manufacturing and the company will use state-of-the-art technology to pilot new manufacturing techniques.
The team will apply customer insights to optimise battery technologies that deliver the performance and utility, commercial vehicle, capability truck and fleet owners value most.
That means creating distinct batteries and technologies to deliver meaningful towing and off-road capability for truck customers as well as stop-and-go driving efficiency for fleet operators in cities worldwide.
Ford’s advanced Electric vehicle journey started with Escape Hybrid in 2004.
The chief product platform and operations officer of Ford, Hau Thai-Tang, said:
“We’re already scaling production of all-electric vehicles around the world as more customers experience and crave the fun-to-drive benefits of electric vehicles with zero emissions,”
“Investing in more battery R&D ultimately will help us speed the process to deliver more, even better, lower cost EVs for customers over time,”
“We are creating new tools and solutions we need for a carbon-free, affordable and better future,”
“We are modernising Ford’s battery development and manufacturing capabilities so we can better control costs and production variables in-house and scale production around the world with speed and quality.”
Ford is moving to an all-electric lineup by 2030 in Europe, with its commercial vehicle ranging 100 percent zero-emissions capable of all-electric or plug-in hybrid by 2024.
