Samsung May Partner With Volkswagen Group in Electric Vehicle Battery Production

Written by Valdemar Medeiros

Published on 16/08/2021 at 12:59

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There Is A Great Possibility For Samsung To Become A Partner Of The Volkswagen Group. The Company Will Produce Batteries For The German Multinational’s Electric Vehicles Still This Year

Samsung SDI may become a partner of the Volkswagen Group with the aim of developing a project for new universal prismatic cells for electric vehicle batteries, which was announced earlier this year. According to unofficial information, Volkswagen is indeed evaluating Samsung’s battery division as an ally for its development.

Volkswagen Plans To Build 6 Factories In Europe

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The Volkswagen Group intends to jointly with its partner companies, build a total of 6 factories for the production of lithium-ion electric vehicle batteries in Europe. The company’s goal is to reach 240 GWh per year, equivalent to an average of 40 GWh per factory.

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So far, the project has defined locations and partner companies for two of the six planned factories. The first will be located in Skelleftea, Sweden, and will practically be an evolution of the Northvolt factory, where production is promised to start in 2023. The second will be in Salzgitter, in the hometown of the Volkswagen multinational, where a Northvolt unit was located while the new one will be launched together with Gotion High-Tech starting in 2025.

A third battery factory is expected to be built in Spain to meet the demand from Martorell and the other factories of Seat/Cupra. Much of, if not all, these investments in the production of electric vehicle batteries are part of a set of joint ventures between the Volkswagen Group and product manufacturers. However, it has not been confirmed whether Samsung’s involvement will be part of the European factories or other regions where there is greater advancement in the sector, such as the United States.

Even BMW Intends To Get Involved With Samsung

Currently, the Volkswagen Group is one of the leading customers of Samsung SDI for battery production, closely followed by BMW Group and Stellantis. BMW itself recently expressed its interest in getting involved with Samsung in the joint development of cylindrical cells.

If this happens, these two important partnerships will allow Samsung SDI to leverage its investments in the automotive market to get closer to technology giants like CATL, LG Energy Solution, Panasonic, or LG Chem.

Returning to Volkswagen, the group’s project plans to build most of the upcoming electric vehicles based on the Scalable Systems Platform (SSP), a flexible platform. The power supply for these vehicles would come from batteries with various types of power, in turn composed of unified prismatic cells, allowing for an equally scalable architecture.

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In addition to future partnerships for electric battery production, which will boost Samsung, there is also a closed partnership with the large electric vehicle company, Tesla.

The contract signed by the companies is estimated at US$ 436 million for the supply of camera modules for the electric pickup, Tesla Cybertruck. The pickup will bring several new technologies and the cameras the company will offer in the deal will be essential for this to be possible. The vehicle will have rearview, side, eight rear and front cameras, to enable autonomous driving.

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