by Marina KHALIZEVA, journalist The Liotech Company, established in 2010 by Rusnano (Russia) and Thunder Sky Group Limited (China), set up a manufacturing site-the first in our country (12 km away from Novosibirsk) and the largest in the world-producing lithium-ion accumulators for transport and energy storage cells. Production capacity of the plant is 1GW • h, which is enough to manufacture annually 1 mln of high-energy batteries and equip over 5 thous. electrobuses. The investment project involving almost RUR 14 bln (invested by Liotech founders) has become one of the largest in the post-Soviet history of the region. The production complex of about 40,000 m2 (38 thous. m2 of production area) was built very quickly--in 9 months--in the territory of the Production and Logistics Ground PNK-Tolmachevo, and has four automatic production lines supplied by Thunder Sky. Adaptable module systems can be easily transformed according to LIOTECH building in the territory of the Production and Logistics Ground "PNK-Tolmachevo". стр. 45 the demands of consumers and new designs. The production site will manufacture 3 basic models of storage batteries with a nominal capacity of 200, 300 and 700 A • h, suitable for all types of electric vehicles, including freight and passenger transport, with a further expansion of the product line for special purpose transport, power engineering, as well as storage batteries of different types--from 2 kW to 100 MW. "When initiating this project, we realized that all national plants producing batteries are totally outdated," Anatoly Chubais, Rusnano CEO, said at the opening ceremony of the production complex. "We were behind the times and were aware that we needed a breakthrough project that would move the branch to a new technological level." According to him, Novosibirsk production complex is one of the global leaders, as lithium-ion accumulator production technologies used there are among the best in th ... Читать далее