Scania Begins Electrical-Truck Battery Meeting – Gas Smarts

Scania has begun EV battery meeting at its Swedish headquarters in Södertälje, permitting business manufacturing of professional quality electrical automobiles, a key step towards the corporate’s objective of fifty% gross sales of electrical automobiles in 2030.

“With the battery meeting in operations we have now one of many key enablers in place to speed up the shift to electrification,” mentioned Christian Levin, president and CEO of Scania and Traton Group. The corporate has invested some $135 million into the brand new battery meeting plant.

“The shift to electrified options is the largest transformation within the historical past of transport, and 2023 is the yr when it really takes off,” he mentioned.

In April, Scania and Northvolt unveiled a collectively developed battery cell designed for heavy-duty transport, which the businesses mentioned gives excellent efficiency and a low carbon footprint. The cell is produced on the gigafactory Northvolt ETT in northern Sweden and beginning Sept. 5 shall be assembled into packs on the new 193,750-square-foot plant in Södertälje, enabling the beginning of serial manufacturing of Scania’s electrical vans for regional transport.

By finding the meeting plant adjoining to the chassis line in Södertälje, which was redesigned this summer time for large-scale manufacturing of electrical automobiles, the circumstances for quick and environment friendly manufacturing flows are in place, in keeping with Scania. The battery meeting will make use of 550 and is extremely automated, from incoming items all through manufacturing to supply.

“Regardless of a quickly altering enterprise panorama, our promise to at all times put our clients first stays,” mentioned Marcus Holm, head of manufacturing and logistics at Scania. “Being premium implies that we ship options which are each of the best high quality — and sustainable. The cell being assembled into modules and packs is an ideal instance of this. It has the capability to energy vans for 1.5 million kilometers [about 932,000 miles]— equal to the truck’s lifetime.”