The firm is about to complete a pilot production line that will print lithium-ion batteries onto sheets of metal or plastic, like printing a newspaper".Thin-film" printing methods of this sort are already used to make solar cells and display screens, but no one has yet been able to pull off the trick on anything like an industrial scale with batteries.
The Shpiragu-2 well reached a total depth of 5547 m in late June 20133), and the company has completed setting the production line.
Expansion has been a recent theme for LDK Solar, which earlier this month completed a new production line for solar cells, which it says can roll out 60 megawatts per year, but hopes to double that amount by the end of the third quarter.
The auto industry reprised that act in 1972, when Congress was considering forcing them to adopt catalytic converters: the vice president of General Motors said "complete stoppage of the production line could occur," while Lee Iacocca, then president of Ford, claimed it would "cause Ford to shut down", cut gross national product by $17 billion, and raise unemployment by 800,000.
Carbon black producer Orion Engineered Carbons SA has completed the construction of a new production line at its plant in Yeosu, South Korea.
Over the next five years, Ferrari will invest an additional $300 million in Maserati, including the construction of a second production line to be completed at the end of this year.
Still, once completed, Musk said that its fourth production line for the Model 3 will be as good as the three other existing lines combined thanks to the redesigned battery assembly process.
Yesterday's decision by the administrators will mean some 1,000 workers at Longbridge will keep their jobs for the time being, to complete around 1,000 cars stranded on the production line last week.
Production manager Steve Fitter said the aim was to complete 10 vehicles each day on the production line "in the near future".
A rolling testing stand was located at the end of the production line to test each completed C5 for faults.
