Volkswagen to make electric car cells, battery packs in U.S.
<p style="text-align: center;"><img title="1597390112130364.png" alt="6.png" src="/ueditor/php/upload/image/20200814/1597390112130364.png"/></p><p>German automaker Volkswagen AG said it was expanding its Chattanooga factory in Tennessee to make electric vehicle cells and battery packs in the United States, alongside assembling electric vehicles.<br/><br/>The company said it plans to break ground for a laboratory in Chattanooga to develop and test cells and battery packs for its upcoming car models assembled in the U.S., with the goal of a fully operational lab by spring 2021.<br/><br/>"A lot of auto companies will farm out the development and testing of batteries to another company, and some will actually do the work of developing and testing in-house. We are doing the latter," said Wolfgang Maluche, vice president of engineering, Volkswagen of America. </p>
14 Aug,2020
