autoregion international - Ausgabe 1/2021

9 And our OEMs are breaking new technolog- ical ground. Battery manufacturers from Ja- pan, Korea and China still dominate the world market with a share of 75 percent. Tesla has its own battery production facility in the USA and plans to install another battery produc- tion facility in the plant under construction in Grünheide, Brandenburg. VW and Daimler are expanding their own battery production, some with foreign partners. Nevertheless, for many manufacturers, the battery unit in electric vehicles is still a purchased part that is obtained from external producers. If you realize that the added value of the battery unit in the overall vehicle is up to 50 percent, the economic relevance becomes clear. Only with our own intensive research and devel- opment on the battery unit will it be possible to significantly reduce costs and increase the efficiency in terms of charging time and range, and thus to create lasting international com- petitiveness of the products. Depending on the degree of their use, the lithium-ion batteries currently available on the market must be replaced, disposed of or recycled. It is unclear, both in technical and legislative terms, how and in what form this can or must be done. In viewof the inadequate quantities of material to be disposed of, eco- nomically viable business models are not yet feasible. But the problem comes with scien- tific certainty and we must be prepared for it. Concepts and regulatory requirements must be developed in cooperation with the OEMs in order to not be faced with insoluble problems in a few years and to reduce the original idea of the introduction of e-mobility, namely the improvement of the climate balance, to ab- surdity. The final success criterion for battery-elec- tric e-mobility is sufficient availability of a charging infrastructure with uniform tech- nical standards and a uniform, cross-border effective payment system. With currently 32,110 public charging points, we are still miles away from the federal government’s self-set target of having one million public charging points by 2030. The funding measures that have been decided, including the subsidies for private charging stations, are certainly pointing in the right direction. However, it is doubtful whether the expansion of a manu- facturer-dependent charging infrastructure, as Tesla operates at great expense, will gen- erate significant efficiency gains. The success of the battery-electric e-drive will continue. The intensity with which this will take place depends largely on the solution to the problems presented for battery technol- ogy and charging infrastructure and less on the models from our manufacturers. E-Mobilität: Sind die Würfel gefallen? Schaut man sich die aktuellen Zulassungs- zahlen des Kraftfahrt-Bundesamtes an und analysiert gleichzeitig die mittelfris- tigen Produktplanungen europäischer Fahrzeughersteller, liegt der Schluss nahe, dass die batterieelektrische Antriebsva- riante in ihrer reinen Formoder als Hybrid- Derivat das Rennen um … Weiterlesen … https://t1p.de/74pe Summary autoregion e.V. autoregion.eu/de Contact www.autoregion.eu/de/contact Events www.autoregion.eu/de/termine