Jaguar suspends production of the I-Pace. There are no links. We are talking again about the Polish plant LG Chem.
According to the British The Times, Jaguar is suspending production of the I-Pace for a week. There are no lithium-ion cells that are supplied by LG Chem and manufactured in a factory near Wroclaw. This is another signal to the industry about the problems of the South Korean manufacturer.
The problem with the presence of lithium-ion batteries
The electric Jaguar I-Pace is built at the Magna Steyr plant in Graz, Austria. The Times has learned that production of the car has been suspended for a week starting Monday, Feb. 10 due to problems with the supply of lithium-ion cells (source). The I-Pace is not the first LG Chem cell-based model from Poland to be in trouble.
It is likely for the same reason that working hours were cut at the Audi e-tron factory in Brussels, and some of the contract workers were laid off.
> Audi cuts employment at the e-tron plant in Belgium. The problem with the supplier
Also, in the case of Mercedes EQC, it can be about providing thermal comfort cells, there are also signals that the company cannot control their size (swelling?). There must be something in that, as the first electric crossover Mercedes-Benz tested by Bjorn Nyland failed, signaling a problem at the cellular level.
According to information received by Handelsblatt, LG Chem cannot supply the required number of cells of consistently good quality..
So it's likely that BMW's strategy of pushing plug-in hybrids and moving away from electrics may be the best way to get through this difficult period.
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Opening photo: Jaguar I-Pace (c) Jaguar battery and drive
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