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Archer Completes Installation “Of High-Volume Battery Pack Manufacturing Line”

Archer Avi­a­tion announced this week, it has com­plet­ed the con­struc­tion of a high-vol­ume bat­tery pack man­u­fac­tur­ing line. This facil­i­ty is housed at Archer’s ‘Inte­grat­ed Test Lab and Man­u­fac­tur­ing Facil­i­ties’ in San Jose, Cal­i­for­nia and will have the through­put nec­es­sary to sup­port the planned high vol­ume air­craft pro­duc­tion at the company’s man­u­fac­tur­ing facil­i­ty in Geor­gia, on track to be com­plet­ed lat­er this year, reports a press release.

The release explains. “The bat­tery pack man­u­fac­tur­ing line was built to be an auto­mo­tive-style pro­duc­tion that is designed for high-vol­ume from day one with the final phase of the facil­i­ty set to be capa­ble of pro­duc­ing up to 15,000 bat­tery packs per year.” 

It goes on, “Archer has applied automa­tion in key areas of the man­u­fac­tur­ing process to improve qual­i­ty, oper­a­tor safe­ty and data trace­abil­i­ty. This includes cell test and load, adhe­sive dis­pens­ing, laser clean­ing, laser weld­ing and end of line test­ing.”

Tom Muniz, Archer’s CTO, com­ment­ed, “This is a major mile­stone as design­ing, devel­op­ing and mass pro­duc­ing propul­sion sys­tems that are pur­pose built for elec­tric air­craft is the key to unlock­ing the elec­tri­fi­ca­tion of avi­a­tion.”

He con­tin­ued, “The facil­i­ty gives us the capa­bil­i­ty to scale our bat­tery pack pro­duc­tion to meet the demands of the out­put that our Cov­ing­ton, Geor­gia facil­i­ty is capa­ble of.”

Archer’s auto­mat­ed bat­tery cylin­dri­cal cell load­ing sta­tion

Archer decid­ed to “ver­ti­cal­ly inte­grate its design and man­u­fac­tur­ing of the bat­tery pack” includ­ing mul­ti­ple 50 ft drop tests sim­u­lat­ing extreme impact sce­nar­ios, “to ensure it meets rig­or­ous lev­els of safe­ty, per­for­mance and reli­a­bil­i­ty nec­es­sary” for the Mid­night air­craft and to pass the chal­leng­ing FAA’s Type Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion pro­gram. 

The bat­tery pack uses a pro­pri­etary and robust ther­mal run­away con­tain­ment strat­e­gy, employ­ing cylin­dri­cal cells which have a track record of safe­ty, per­for­mance and scal­a­bil­i­ty. 

For more infor­ma­tion

www.archer.com

(Images: Archer Avi­a­tion)

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