Automakers are working on reduce CO2 emissions throughout the life cycle of their vehicles. When electric Vehicles, work is underway to achieve truly sustainable production processes also regarding the production of batteries within gigafactories. And just to design future sustainable gigafactories, he took European project GIGAGREEN who sees Italy as the protagonist, given that at the helm of this project is the Polytechnic of Turin.
The project is funded by the European Union with almost 4.7 million euros under the Horizon Europe research and innovation framework, which aims to develop sustainable and safe processes for the production of ion battery cells, lithium.
To this project 16 partners will work for 4 years from 8 different European countries including Sustainable Innovation, ABEE, Solvionic, Leclanche, Nanomakers, University of Parma, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Sintef, Inegi Porto, Cic Energigune, Arlanxeo, Alphanov, Manz Italy, CETIM and Johnson Matthey.
The goal is to get to create a sustainable gigafactory of the futureplacing Europe at the forefront of the global market for lithium-ion batteries, which are critical to the next generation of electric vehicles.
Therefore, as mentioned at the beginning, the Polytechnic Institute of Turin will be coordinating this project. Furthermore, will operate its pilot line make several prototypes of small cells. It is the first Italian university to have a small pilot line used to develop lines for the production of lithium-ion cells.
This production line will also be used for training of new professional figures more and more requests at the European level: in fact, according to the latest estimates, 800,000 new workers will be needed in this sector. Projects such as GIGAGREEN will give many students the opportunity to prepare for the transition to electricity in the coming years.
Speaking in more detail about the project, the partners will work on “develop and scale new manufacturing processes for electrodes and cell components that follow a data-driven design-to-manufacturing approach to meet established goals of optimizing factory flexibility, process scalability, and overall production line sustainability.“.
Consequently the project will be devoted to the study of production processes electrodes that provide maximum performance, production speed, safety and cost efficiency with minimal environmental impact and energy consumption in cell design, and facilitate reuse and disassembly.
It is believed that the results that will come from the GIGAGREEN project “will facilitate a smooth transition between current processing methods, optimized by trial and error and not ready for flexible mass production, and the lithium-ion cell factory of the future, based on greener, cheaper, safer technologies, higher quality, cleaner, digitized and flexible“.
The results that may apply after 2026. to improve the competitiveness of the battery industry in Europe.
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Source: HD Motori
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