The German automaker noted in a press release that the Chattanooga site will soon have a voltage lab designed to expand and verify electric vehicle cells and batteries for long-running models assembled in the United States.
This installation will come with equipment, adding voltage testers, explosion-proof weather cameras and a traditional multi-axle vibratory table (MAST) designed to verify the integrity of vehicle components, i.e. batteries. The MAST will be the largest time of its kind in the United States and will have supports buried 12 feet below the lab floor and reinforced with concrete.
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“The drums don’t just shake; it goes through a series of complicated situations to check its durability in a variety of imaginable environments, from the South Pole to the Sahara,” Jason Swager, Volkswagen’s director of electrical development, said in a statement. . “We had to build a MAST that could cope with the immense strength and frequency we want to check those batteries.”
Battery cells to be used through VW electric cars built in Chattanooga will be manufactured through SKI in Georgia. Volkswagen needs improved Tennessee amenities to be operational until spring 2021.
“Automakers are advancing the progression of electric vehicle batteries in two ways,” Wolfgang Maluche, vice president of engineering at Volkswagen America, said in a statement. “Many of them will entrust battery progression and testing to some other company, and some will do the progression and paint testing internally. We’re doing the latter.”
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