MILAN — Carmaker Stellantis aims to develop lighter
batteries, cutting weights in half to improve sustainability, the group's technology chief said on Friday.were"just too heavy," making vehicles"not compatible" with sustainability purposes. "So what I have in mind and a very hard goal for my team by 2030 is to change the battery weight to at least 50% lighter battery," Curic said during the inauguration of the group's Battery Technology Center in Turin,"We will have to think about completely new materials, new chemistry, new way of replacing this heavy, heavy, heavy materials to something much lighter," he said.
As part of its long-term efforts to improve batteries, the world's third-largest carmaker by sales, whose brands include