MILAN — The automotive trade should cut back the load of EV batteries by 50% within the subsequent 10 years to make electrification environmentally significant, the top of Stellantis stated on Wednesday.
Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares stated throughout the automaker’s Freedom of Mobility Discussion board that making a battery pack for an electrical car (EV) with a “decent range” of 400 kilometres (250 miles) now took on common 1,000 kilos, or round 500 kilograms, of further uncooked supplies in comparison with a standard automobile.
“From an environmental standpoint … I don’t think it makes sense,” Tavares stated.
The Stellantis CEO stated the auto trade, primarily based on new science, wanted to realize a “breakthrough” by way of cells’ energy density.
“I think that’s on the way. I think over the next decade we’ll be able to reduce the battery pack weight by 50%, hence reducing by 50% the use of additional raw materials against a conventional vehicle,” he stated.
He added this may additionally assist resolve the issue of lithium shortage, a key factor in most of right this moment’s batteries.
Stellantis’ Freedom of Mobility Discussion board – which on Wednesday held its second annual session – was arrange by the group after it determined to go away European auto foyer group ACEA on the finish of 2022. It’s designed to advertise discussions with stakeholders over masking the issues and tendencies of mobility and their implications for international warming.
Through the discussion board Tavares additionally stated he didn’t see hydrogen as a viable different know-how for current mass mobility because of its “sky high” prices, even assuming that vitality used to supply hydrogen was clear.
“I’m afraid that for the time being affordability is going to be a major showstopper for hydrogen,” Tavares stated. “For the near future, it’s (possibly) going to be a solution for fleets of big corporations, but certainly not for normal citizens.”