Volkswagen had demonstrated in the past that it would manufacture electric cars for the North American market at its plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee. On Wednesday, the automaker said he was also planning to take out engineering paints there.
An existing engineering and planning center in Chattanooga will soon have a “high voltage lab” to check cells and battery packs for long-lasting models assembled on site, VW said in a press release.
VW plans to open the lab soon, with the aim of making it fully operational until spring 2021. The laboratory will feature deformation testers, anti-blow climate chambers and a multi-purpose stirring table (MAST), all designed to reflect the worst situations. to which the parties may be exposed in the genuine world.
According to VW, building a MAST that can be tortured to test a heavy electric car battery without damaging it is a challenge.
“The drums don’t just shake; it goes through a series of complicated situations to verify their durability in a variety of imaginable environments, from the South Pole to the Sahara,” Jason Swager, VW’s director of electrical development, said in a statement. . Array “We had to build a MAST that could cope with the immense strength and frequency we want to check those batteries.”
Volkswagen ID.4 at Chattanooga Engineering and Planning Center
VW is already carrying out controls similar to Etats-Unis. He recently completed a 50-seat cargo in Maricopa, Arizona, in a check field, where the cargo device operates at 120 degrees temperature.
Meanwhile, the first electric style to be built in Chattanooga is the ID.4 crossover. Deliveries are expected to begin later this year, the first cars will come from a plant in Zwickau, Germany, with local production in 2022.
VW has not shown many major points about the U.S. ID.4 specification, it has already announced its goal of establishing the value of its electric cars in gas cars (after the application of federal electric car tax credits, i.e.
The maximum expected electric vehicle in the ID family, which features VW’s MEB modular platform, is the Microbus-inspired Buzz ID, which is also expected to be built in Chattanooga.