Does Italy without a gigafactory focus on microfactories for the cars of the future?
The startup Motors Grouping intends to build a microfactory for electric cars in Liguria. When fully operational, it will employ about twenty people. But Italy needs far more private investments…
The Silk-Faw adventure here in Italy ended in the worst possible way and it is still to be understood how that of Italvolt will continue, our country, despite boasting a long automotive tradition, runs the risk of being left without gigafactories, the factories in which the electric cars of tomorrow.
MICRO-INVESTMENT
And then focus on microfactories. The first for custom-built electric cars will be built in Genoa: this is the intention of Motors Grouping, an automotive startup that has identified the Valpolcevera as the ideal place to build the plant, for an estimated investment of 6 million euros. Reduced figures, in fact (the Italvolt gigafactory of electric batteries which should have been built in Ivrea envisaged the placing on the plate of 3 billion), for a plant which, at full capacity, will employ no more than twenty employees. The project also includes the construction of a campus dedicated to innovative motoring and intelligent mobility.
THE GENOVESE MICROFACTORY
The Motors Grouping microfactory envisages the construction of a flexible production plant in which, as the startup explains, "the craftsmen meet the latest technologies in terms of robotics, artificial intelligence and 3D printing". The goal is the creation of electric retrofits of classic collector's vehicles with the Scossa brand.
The first car will be the 155eDtm Evoluzione, the first project created in 2022 by Motors Grouping, with the involvement, through an international competition, of over 80 teams of car designers from ten different nationalities.
There will also be a Car Design and Vehicle Engineering center specializing in custom-built and racing cars in which the final phase of a first technological project called Forma Sport will be developed, a fully electric modular platform that can be used for racing cars intended for both the track than off-road. Launched at the end of 2022, this project was born from a second international competition which saw the participation of 37 teams, including engineers and car designers, of seven nationalities.
And, in fact, a multipurpose area equipped with an electric vehicle education center and mobility services, with the possibility of co-working and a workshop specialized in setting up racing cars. An interesting project that demonstrates once again how the electric transition is allowing a growing number of startups to penetrate a market that has been closed until now (although there are many young companies, also supported by weighty investors, in crisis ). In the knowledge, however, that our country needs far more investments if it wants to keep up with the others.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/smartcity/italia-microfactory-batterie-auto-elettriche/ on Mon, 24 Apr 2023 05:46:58 +0000.