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Toyota-Panasonic agreement to cut battery costs by 65% ​​in 4 years

The joint venture between the two giants has already produced 1,4 million batteries, and is preparing for a mission to conquer the markets.

Gianluca Ricciodi Gianluca Riccio
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PPES (Prime Planet Energy & Solutions) is a joint venture between Toyota and Panasonic born in April 2020. The Japanese company holds 51% of the shares, the battery giant 49%. The company has just launched a plan to reduce lithium-ion battery manufacturing costs and become more competitive than Chinese and South Korean competition.

The company is headed by Hiroaki Koda, a former Toyota executive who has a management culture devoted to reducing waste. And it is precisely by following this philosophy that PPES has set the halving the production costs of batteries by 2022, adding the ambitious promise of getting a cut even 65-70% for 2025. But is it possible?

Where to reduce costs to produce batteries

Circa the 60% of lithium-ion battery costs are attributable to raw materials (with lithium and cobalt in pole position), prices are soaring due to the growth in demand for electric vehicles and technological devices. The remaining 40%instead, it goes away between development, production and investments in factories and plants.

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PPES aims to reduce costs throughout the production cycle, and then reach lower prices at the time of sale.

Ours is a competitive environment. We want to cut production costs and reach certain price levels to make electric cars attractive and facilitate their spread. If we run out, we don't sell.

Hiroaki Koda, PPES
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Hiroaki Koda, PPES

Between hybrid and full electric

PPES 'first goal is to produce batteries for hybrid cars and reach 25% of the market share of batteries for this type of car. But in the future the company will try its hand more and more in the production of accumulators for full electric cars, trying to consolidate its positioning on the market in both sectors. Operations began in April 2020, and the company has produced in total since then 1,4 million batteries for hybrid and electric, but wants to expand.

Could this also be why Panasonic sold all the Tesla shares it owned?

This year PPES has started in battery lines for BEVs also in the factories in Himeji, Japan. There, the expected production is 80.000 batteries for the first 12 months. This also gives us an idea of ​​the numbers Toyota will make in the short term. Also in Japan, the Shikoku plant will be expanded to go from 400.000 to 500.000 hybrid car batteries per year.

If it gives me so much, we will have more and less expensive batteries in a short time.

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