Innovative manufacturing techniques and investments in battery production in Canada make Honda’s battery electric vehicle sales and carbon-neutral goals more possible
Honda ’s 6,000-ton mega-casting machine is able to stamp out battery cases in two separate pieces. This flexible-cell approach can produce cases for EVs of different sizes and reduce the number of parts required to build the case from 60 to just five.Small improvements can lead to big results. Honda is betting on this with its upcoming 0 Series – pronounced Zero – line of battery-electric vehicles.
Production of the as-yet-unnamed sedan will start in late 2025, initially sharing a production line with Honda’s gas cars at its manufacturing complex in Ohio. A newly developed mega-casting machine currently undergoing testing in Tochigi, Japan will be brought to the Anna, Ohio engine plant to produce the aluminum case that will hold the battery modules. Honda says it will eventually install six of these machines, each the size of a small building more than nine metres high.
Honda has also developed welding technology that the company says will revolutionize spot welding. Constant Direct Current Chopping welding combines the best of AC welding and DC welding, the company says. It can join multiple steel sheets of varying thickness, including lightweight ultra-high tensile steel, while reducing weld spatter to just 2 per cent from 98, the company has found. The resulting weld is stronger and more consistent.
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