It’s all about the batteries. Succeeding in the electric vehicle market in which there’s far more consumer demand for electric cars than there is supply often comes down to having enough batteries. The more batteries, the more sales, the better one looks. BMW got the memo (perhaps) and just confirmed a battery supply agreement with CATL for 2025 onward. BMW Group is planning an electric vehicle series called the NEUE KLASSE series, and CATL will provide the batteries for those vehicles.
These with be cylindrical battery cells 46 mm in diameter. They will be produced at two new CATL factors, one in China and one in Europe. At each of these battery gigafactories, 20 GWh of battery production will be dedicated to BMW Group.
CATL reports that this will be a big step up for BMW. “Powered by CATL’s new round cells, the sixth generation of BMW eDrive technology used in the NEUE…
BMW Getting Cylindrical Batteries From CATL
