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Porsche has entered into a new partnership with Customcells for the production of lithium-ion batteries for electric cars with a higher energy density
Porsche is working on having its own battery joint venture for electric cars. It entered into a partnership with the also German Customcells and will focus on the production of high performance accumulators. Double the market value of the company headquartered in Tübingen, Germany, will be invested in the new venture by Porsche.
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In the partnership, Customcells will be responsible for producing lithium-ion batteries for electric cars with a higher energy density and faster charging processes than the batteries currently used by the Taycan Cross Turismo and the Taycan.
One of the goals of Porsche's new battery company is to create cells that use rare metals in a smaller amount, to contain production costs. The new joint venture will start its assembly lines with the capacity to supply batteries for around 1.000 electric cars annually.
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In the month of April, Porsche intended to test the production of state-of-the-art batteries, and even the company's CEO, Oliver Blume, said. However, at the time it was still not certain whether the automaker had started its own line of batteries as it currently has with the partnership.
PPE architecture and even faster charging batteries
With the joint venture, Porsche is taking on an increasingly independent role in terms of the green transition. In addition to the new batteries for electric cars, the automaker intends to use a platform entirely dedicated to its zero-emission models.
The name of the platform is PPE architecture, and in fact it will also be used by Audi in top-of-the-line cars, but it emerged in a completely independent way in relation to the MEB, which is at the base of the electric cars of the ID family and for other cars powered by Skoda and SEAT battery packs.
Porsche promoting sustainability
While other automakers are always looking to manufacture electric cars to reduce CO2 emissions, Porsche, in partnership with Siemens Energy and Exxon, are going the opposite way, exploring new paths in combustion engines.
In May, the company announced that it was developing a gasoline that can be less polluting than an electric car. Porsche's new petrol is called E-fuel and aims to achieve an 85% reduction in CO2 emissions.
According to the company, this is the average reduction generated by electric cars, varying according to where the consumer resides and also the source of energy used to recharge the car.
