Inside The World's Biggest (And Most Secret) Battery Factory!

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Batteries are everywhere - from electric vehicles to stationary storage to the device you're watching this episode on! And many of them come from the biggest battery company in the world, CATL - possibly the biggest and most important company, you've never heard of. In this episode, Elliot gets a world exclusive tour around one of the CATL gigafactories in China to find out how these innumerate batteries are made. We promise you, it will blow your mind! @fullychargedshow @EverythingElectricShow
00:00 Z Factory - How to make a battery
01:23 In 10 million vehicles worldwide
02:22 Cathode room
03:03 Half a width of a human hair!
03:37 18,000 researchers
04:03 Rolling 2.2 million cells
05:49 Super cheap and super energy dense
06:31 The Baking Room
07:21 Electrolyte
07:54 Stationary storage
08:41 Charging and discharging
09:02 Cell testing
09:30 Battery swapping
10:25 The final stage!
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@erinwiebe7026 4 месяца назад

Fantastic peek into CATL, thank you & the Fully Charged Show team for persevering and making this happen. The technology, automation & scale of this factory is astounding!

@LXTstudio 4 месяца назад

Better than a BBC documentary on the topic

@johnsmith-cw3wo 4 месяца назад

BBC would be more like: ''China is collapsing any day now... because they are communist or something''

@beneric4851 4 месяца назад

There are so many China collapsed. Which China is the next?@@johnsmith-cw3wo

@stickynorth 4 месяца назад

This was like the battery version of visiting the Wonka Factory, Charlie! Very cool... Especially with those two other battery types on display... A cheap every-person's car battery in the sodium-ion form and aviation battery that will unlock cheaper and cleaner regional aviation! Well done, CATL! You truly are the world changing company we'd all hope you'd be!

@kushalraj93 4 месяца назад

This is the exact analogy that came to my mind!

@chillfluencer 4 месяца назад

CATL is halving the price of its LFP batteries by mid 2024. And: do you think the development ends here? Of course the energy density of Sodium-Ion batteries will ramp up while the cost goes down even more. A comparable BEV model to an ICE will only cost about 1/4th. But eventually Robotaxis will shrink the overall amount of cars on the streets. This will be the real disruption. I personally am too lazy to have a car and can't wait to be driven around.

@OCDaddyZsolt 4 месяца назад

Actually, in Hungary, they just started to build the factory, it is not operational yet. It is in my hometown, Debrecen. As a side note, BMW is also about to complete a car factory here in Debrecen and they will produce electric cars only here.

@theolich4384 4 месяца назад

Been there. The estate the CATL HQ (plus an enormous SAIC compound 2km away that's been pumping out MG4s straight to the port down the road, and an increasing number of battery and auto parts suppliers) sits on didn't exist before 2008. All were built upon reclaimed land. Locals only began land reclamation for cultivation in the early 1990s, when the city of Ningde was a backwater, anonymous fishing town, with no other but Xi Jingping serving as the local party chief (who is usually the one in charge, instead of the mayor). Today it's among the fastest growing municipalities in China, albeit still small by Chinese standard. Takeaway here is manufacturing takes decades of dedicated work. It's not as easy as pass a law and pushing a button.

@HermanWillems 4 месяца назад

Hu Jintao was better than Xi Jinping though you agree right ?

@postahundredcommentsbutonl4408 4 месяца назад

@@HermanWillems As long as China's leaders continue to adhere to Confucian collectivism and a commodity economy, China's urbanization and industrialization movement will continue. Whether it is Deng Xiaoping or today's Xi Jinping, although they both claim to be Leninists, they are suppressing Leninists and Western liberals in private. Although this is a strange approach, it ensures that there will be no unrest in China.

@HermanWillems 4 месяца назад

@@postahundredcommentsbutonl4408 nah there is a limit to that. As innovation u really need free spirit and free thinking not limited by government.

@postahundredcommentsbutonl4408 4 месяца назад

@@HermanWillems Western liberalism = innovation? Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore, who graduated first in the Cambridge Law Department, would faint from laughter at your words. After World War II, only Confucian areas completed urbanization and industrialization. Why? (Even Western countries themselves completed urbanization and industrialization through colonial plunder) South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan have tried their best to cater to Western liberalism since the 1990s, but as a result, they have stagnated in development? Why does Singapore, which has always adhered to Confucian collectivism, continue to develop rapidly? Singapore is the country most opposed to Western liberalism in the world. Every law enacted by Mr. Lee Kuan Yew is in conflict with Western liberalism. Singapore even bans firecrackers and chewing gum. In Singapore, if you stick chewing gum to public facilities, you will be caned. In Singapore, selling 15g of drugs is punishable by death. Compare Western countries and Singapore. Is there such a possibility. The decline of the West today is caused by Western liberalism itself.

@rodrigomiranda2432 4 месяца назад

@@HermanWillems CATL, Huawei, BYD, Comac, SMIC, solar energy, quantum computing, industrial automation, high speed rail, superconductors... China is leading everywhere you look

@johnmcnulty6171 4 месяца назад

That was cool, very well done Elliot plus all the team, and a big thank you to CATL for allowing it. I was also quite stunned to see a super dense 500 Wh/kg battery too. I've only been expecting that kind of power density from Silicon Anode batteries. Would love to learn more about that please 🙏🏻

@stefanweilhartner4415 4 месяца назад

as far as i know they didn't release details about their 511Wh/kg battery. and longevity might still be a problem, or maybe a very expensive manufacturing process.

@marktrinidad7650 4 месяца назад

Wow. How the heck did he get clearance to get into CATL.

@sodiumhexacyanoferrate1452 4 месяца назад

Chinese companies probably want more exposure in western media so he may have been paid by the government.

@t.g.2777 4 месяца назад

It's free propaganda for them 😂

@sodiumhexacyanoferrate1452 4 месяца назад

@@t.g.2777hmmmmmm i cant see my comment anymore 😆

@t.g.2777 4 месяца назад

@@sodiumhexacyanoferrate1452did you comment same thing I'm guessing?

@oBCHANo 4 месяца назад

The CCP propaganda arm decided it would be good PR and gave it the greenlight.

@yzhang9265 4 месяца назад

CATL, the King of EV Battery. Finally see the factory. Thanks Fully Charged Team =)

@mikemellor759 4 месяца назад

Elliott, that was amazing. It makes the videos Tesla release on the 4680 production look basic. Well done for persevering to gain access. 👏👏

@timw1971 4 месяца назад

Interesting video. My thanks to Fully Charged and CATL

@Sekir80 4 месяца назад

Correction for 3:08 14 microns sound about correct by comparing to human hair. 0.14 micron is a hundred times smaller.

@mumblic 3 месяца назад

He probably meant 0.14 mm = 140 microns

@Sekir80 3 месяца назад

@@mumblic 14 microns is pretty much on point as half the width of human hair. Mine was 40 microns when I was young; now as age decreases it, it's probably thinner. Oh, you know what? I'll measure it right now! Interesting: only 4 microns seems too low, but that's the number now. According to Wolfram alpha the average is between 18 and 80 microns.

@EugeneLambert 4 месяца назад

Fascinating episode, and brilliant work by Elliot to line this up. CATL will take some catching.

@briancollier5145 4 месяца назад

Wow! Great look inside a CATL plant. Since there are a number of these planned for around the world, it is good to see what they look like!

@user-kx7tg7vt6n 4 месяца назад

Love the editing. Congrats to whoever did this! Give them a raise! The beginning especially was really nice :) The whole production in fact is great!

@jeremyt7448 4 месяца назад

Wow, the storage room is huge! Interesting vid and well edited.

@TassieEV 4 месяца назад

Wow that is amazing Elliot! Can't imagine the paperwork and red tape you had to go through to get in to film inside CATL but am so glad they did allow you amazing place and guessing their other factories are very similar to their main one in China.

@caseydbani1419 4 месяца назад

Congrats to this superb documentation! You are the man!

@P_As_C_Al 4 месяца назад

2:38 Great Video and congrats on getting access to such a secretive industry! Just a small correction: it’s not magnesium that goes into the battery but manganese. Small but important difference! 😁

@ahaveland 4 месяца назад

I noticed that too, but these are LiFePo₄ cells - there's no manganese in these either, as far as I know.

@logicalChimp 4 месяца назад

@@ahaveland From the sounds of it, the factory can change which type of cell they're making each day, and CATL still make NMC cells, I think

@yangtianyi9563 4 месяца назад

Ningde is where President Xi Jinping previous served as a city chief, CATL is one of his brain children of developing local manufacturing industry. Though western MSM is constantly portraying him a dictator, the truth is every China's top leader starts to lead a village, then a town, then a city than a province finally the nation. This process takes a man 30-40 years to upscaling his knowledge, managing capacity, political skills and loyalty of serving his people.

@reginald7214 4 месяца назад

Yep.

@Rufus2005f1 4 месяца назад

Fascinating video. Hats off to CATL giving access

@HorizonimagingCoUkPhotography 4 месяца назад

Wow talk about a peek into the future! 😮 Amazing work getting permission to film here FCS! 🤩🙏

@Yanquetino 4 месяца назад

Fascinating episode! It always bedazzles me to peek inside such factories. So much automation, such incredible machines! Now, I think my Powerwalls have 2170 cells inside them, manufactured by CATL? I figured they were built at the Gigafactory by Panasonic. Silly me?

@4literv6 4 месяца назад

The new powerwall3 is using catl prismatic lfp cells, all others are Panasonic 2170s I thought?

@bewilderbeestie 4 месяца назад

In at least some of those shots, I get the impression there's a couple of nervous handlers just off-camera who have said things like, "put your feet there --- yes, right there --- don't move --- and don't _touch anything!"_

@linkedinroger 4 месяца назад

Wow! Wow! And Wow again!..and one more Wow - because you're worth it Elliot! In both gaining access to such a facility, and in the way you filmed it (especially your genuine excitement on entering the baking room) Thank You! 👏

@TheOfficialBatteryMan 4 месяца назад

Very nice to see the level of automation and a stranger parts vibe

@Roamor1 4 месяца назад

amazing view, thank you

@AmerBoyo 4 месяца назад

Very impressive!

@johnhornblow4347 4 месяца назад

Awesome video, best since his BYD factory tour

@VegBazzoBoys 4 месяца назад

Great content Elliot. Very interesting 😊

@54mgtf22 4 месяца назад

Great job Elliot.

@lesnypatrol7292 4 месяца назад

Thanks CATL for innovation

@johnsmith-cw3wo 4 месяца назад

the communists STOLE the technology from THE WEST !

@alistairl 4 месяца назад

I do like a "how it's made!"- fun to see the full clean suit of the visitor's badge. I just get a badge with a red outline - Elliot is in yellow 😊

@bigbadthesailor5173 4 месяца назад

just very glad this is Elliot and not Greg Wallace inside the factory!

@zodiacfml 4 месяца назад

CATL is not only big but also high quality. CATL hard to find their batteries in many stores. if they are available, the CATL batteries are more expensive than any other brand.

@durwoodmaccool890 4 месяца назад

Awesome video. I like how it's all robots and machines and then at the end for shipping it's a bored looking guy loading em into the packing.

@user-zj9tl5tr2o 4 месяца назад

Brilliant Video

4 месяца назад

We just got a bettery factory in my city, allways thought it was so big. But now i see that Catl cafeteriais probably bigger then our entire battery factory lol

@thermalstoragesystemfromtr9513 4 месяца назад

LOL, we do have some big factories here in China which is probably bigger than a city.

@barneyomulligan9739 4 месяца назад

Seems like quite a scoop, thank you Elliot great video. Did they perhaps give an idea of where their power comes from to run the operation? They must be looking for economies and efficiencies.

@vhol93 4 месяца назад

Awesome!

@viranjith 4 месяца назад

Amazing!

@christurner7601 4 месяца назад

I'd dispute the fact that it is the world's 'most secret' battery factory given that you have filmed it and distributed on RU-vid. I know some one who is making batteries in their spare bedroom, he hasn't told anyone else but me.

@lievenvv 4 месяца назад

So not the most secret either ☝️

@patreekotime4578 4 месяца назад

Well, unless you consider hallways and the sides of machine enclosures 'industrial secrets' I think it's safe to say they are pretty secretive. Especially when smaller companies looking for investors will do tours and explain all of the steps and show their proprietary machinery on camera doing all kinds of proprietary things.

@reginald7214 4 месяца назад

😂😆

@whitneylake2107 4 месяца назад

Was the little gold box a solid state battery ? The prospect of a sodium based battery is exciting. Thank you for the tour.

@Mobile_Dom 4 месяца назад

no it's their ultra high density (and higher cost) dense batteries they're looking at using for aircraft, still NMC as far as we're aware

@gaobili 4 месяца назад

semi-solid, electrolyte inside is a jelly-like gel

@HermanWillems 4 месяца назад

nah just high energy dense NCM. (The battery that NOBODY cares about though, i mean we want to get away from NCM they are worse for the enviornment.) The Natrium-Ion batteries and the LFP batteries is where the game is at. Nobody cares about the energy density at high price. Everybody cares about the price per kWh.

@stefanweilhartner4415 4 месяца назад

@@HermanWillems high price is not a show stopper for aviation. like pipistrel or lillium etc. but they don't use CATL.

@paulsmakingmovies1451 4 месяца назад

Very interesting stuff

@LXTstudio 4 месяца назад

Also kudos to the team for making sure Elliot was pointing to the right video at the end.

@OmgThatsIncredible 4 месяца назад

First of all.. It is not Magnesium what the batteries use. It is Manganese. ;)

@najibyarzerachic 4 месяца назад

M3P has manganesium as well I believe

@ronaldcampbell17 4 месяца назад

I love your videos.

@rohitmehra7078 4 месяца назад

Wow. Amazingly good. Did you ask around the production quality of these cells. I wonder how much Does the capacity and resistance vary from cell to cell?

@michaelbedard7859 4 месяца назад

Amazing gift🎉

@dalroth10 4 месяца назад

I don't know how you managed to persuade CATL to allow you in to see their manufacturing capabilities but I found this fascinating - well done you! CATL are clearly a world superpower when it comes to batteries and their products are astonishing. The scale of their operation is staggering and they are clearly innovating at a speed few, if any other countries in the world, can compete with.