BMW has partnered with Japanese battery manufacturer Envision AESC to secure cells for its next generation of US-built 'X' electric SUVs.
Envision will build a 30GWh facility – sufficient capacity for roughly 300,000 electric vehicles per year – near BMW’s Spartanburg plant in South Carolina.
This site will supply cylindrical battery cells of BMW’s own design – claimed to be 20% more energy-dense than current-generation rectangular units – for BMW’s next-generation EVs by the end of the decade.
