On February 19, the Ningde Times Shanghai Lingang Industrial Project (Riting Battery Base Project, Smart Technology Project) officially started construction and will be completed and put into production within one year.
At the commencement ceremony of the construction project of Lingang New Area held in February 2022 on the same day, Qu Tao, assistant to the chairman of Ningde Times, said that landing in Lingang is a crucial step in the strategic development of Ningde Times, “We will continue to rely on Ningde Times. With the world‘s leading extreme manufacturing system and the construction experience of the global lighthouse factory, we will build a green, efficient and intelligent factory in the Lingang New Area and optimize the layout of the new energy industry.”
It is reported that the total land area of the Shanghai Lingang Industrial Project of CATL is 283,721.1 square meters, the total construction area is about 350,000 square meters, and the planned investment is 2.8 billion yuan. The project plans 1 PTO workshop, 1 PTO test workshop, 2 M&P workshops, 3 raw material warehouses, 2 finished product warehouses, 1 R&D office building and ten units.
Qu Tao revealed that the Ningde Times Shanghai Lingang Industrial Project will also focus on technical challenges such as mileage anxiety, fast charging and other industry pain points, and realize the upgrading of key technologies in the industry. It is reported that the project is committed to the research and development and application of low-energy and long-range power battery system architecture and control system integrated development and application, high-efficiency battery system thermal management and low-temperature environment application technology research and development and multi-level battery safety protection technology research and development, greatly improving new energy vehicles. System integration efficiency, the system solves the key pain points in the industry such as mileage anxiety and fast charging of new energy vehicles, and accelerates the industrialization process of new energy vehicles.
After the completion of the project, CATL will give full play to its advantages as a leading enterprise in the new energy industry chain, promote technological research and development in cutting-edge fields, and will build the “Four Innovations” in Shanghai, including advanced materials, system structure, extreme manufacturing and business model innovation. System” to realize the key technology upgrade of the industry.
“Ningde Times will help Shanghai to build a scientific and technological innovation center with global influence, and build a new energy technology innovation source and industrial ecological highland based in Shanghai, facing the Yangtze River Delta, radiating the whole country, and leading the world.” Qu Tao said.
According to SNE statistics, in 2021, the installed capacity of CATL’s power batteries will reach 97GWh, a year-on-year increase of 168%, and the global market share will climb to 33%, ranking first in the world for five consecutive years. At the same time, the energy storage business of CATL has grown rapidly and is in a leading position in the world. In addition, by the end of last year, CATL had gathered more than 9,500 R&D talents at home and abroad.
In December last year, a Securities Times reporter learned from a press briefing held by the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology that the power battery module smart factory built by CATL in Lingang, Shanghai, will contribute to output in 2022.
CATL has fully integrated into the digital development of Shanghai’s high-end equipment industry. In addition to the construction of industrial projects in Lingang, Shanghai, CATL will also build an innovation center with world influence and a future energy research institute in Minhang, Shanghai. Among them, the Future Energy Research Institute will attract innovative scientific research teams and high-level leading talents at home and abroad, build a high-end scientific research and technical talent echelon, explore the innovative mechanism of “production, education, research and application”, promote the integration of capital and intellectual capital, and accelerate the transformation of scientific research results into real productivity.