BMW Announces Deeper Partnership On Solid State Batteries

BMW, like many other automakers, is looking to crack the solid state battery problem and get the technology to market (and in its EVs) quicker than the competition. The manufacturer entered a joint partnership to develop solid state batteries for automotive use with Solid Power, which is also working with Ford towards the same goal. Now BMW has announced that it will “start the next phase of joint research and development,” and that it wants to use cell pilot production lines from Solid Power at its own Cell Manufacturing Competence Center, which it opened last year. The goal behind this was obviously to hasten the development of automotive solid state batteries and get them in a series production vehicle. According to Frank Weber, Member of the Board of Management BMW AG, Development, BMW remains committed to the pursuit of all-solid-state batteries, a technology which we…

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