Japan's Nissan bets on solid-state batteries, gigacasting for next-gen EVs

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YOKOHAMA, Japan: Japan's Nissan Motor will begin to produce solid-state batteries for electric vehicles at scale by early 2029 and use huge casting machines as it seeks to raise efficiency and drive down costs on future models, the automaker said on Tuesday (Apr 16).

The logo of Nissan Motor is seen on a car wheel at the automaker's showroom in Tokyo, Japan, on Nov 11, 2020. YOKOHAMA, Japan: Japan's Nissan Motor will begin to produce solid-state batteries for electric vehicles at scale by early 2029 and use huge casting machines as it seeks to raise efficiency and drive down costs on future models, the automaker said on Tuesday .

Nissan expects to make its first solid-state batteries at the site from March 2025 and will deploy 100 workers per shift to step up production to 100 megawatt hours per year from the financial year starting April 2028. The automaker considered various things for manufacturing car bodies, he added."In the end, we decided to use a 6,000 tonnes gigacasting machine to make the rear body structure of cars using aluminium casting."

 

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