The United States built the first car battery factory with Chinese technology
American Electric Vehicle Company of California Kodak Company on May 25 announced that Ohio will be used to establish the first factory in China Li-ion Latitude D830 battery technology for automobiles, in order to launch all-electric car this year.
According to the U.S. “New York Times” news, after the U.S. auto industry with the development of China’s scientific and technological forces is a very rare example. Kodak Company, this facility will provide at least 1,000 jobs, which means that this program will also provide employment for the two sides of the posts.
Kodak executives said the company will be the electric car in Los Angeles to complete the final assembly, while prior to the completion of the module manufacturer in China. Subjects in the original plan directly from a factory in Tianjin, China imported car batteries, but this battery size, weight, leading to its transport from China to the United States the cost is very expensive. So in the end Kodak changed our plans in the United States to find a way to produce it directly Inspiron 1520 battery , Inspiron 1521 battery .
Although the basic technology to manufacture such lithium batteries already come out, but the U.S. has yet to apply it to electric vehicles. Kodak’s head in May 23 visit to Tianjin, China saw the technology, and said, “We are very fortunate to find an open-minded partner, so I am pleased to say to them, ‘Let us on your technology cooperation it ‘. ”
Reported that the U.S. company the short term depends on the production of China’s advanced battery technology, and the company’s goal is to replicate in China Li-ion battery manufacturing plant.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke in the May 22 press conference in Tianjin said: “Even if the U.S. put pressure on China to the United States for more clean energy technology, but in some areas of battery technology, the United States had to learn Chinese.”