At noon (eastern) on March 16 we held live conversation between Charle Poon, Ford Motor Co.'s director of electrified systems engineering, and IndustryWeek Editor-in-Chief Robert Schoenberger. They discussed Ford's recent $3.5 billion plant announcement to make lithium iron phosphate batteries in Michigan.
Ford (and the entire auto industry) has set aggressive goals to electrify the global automotive fleet throughout the next few decades. Critical to those efforts will be lowering the cost of batteries and removing hard-to-source metals that often come from conflict zones or require mining operations that create their own environmental challenges. LFP technology could address some of those issues, but there are tradeoffs.
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