基本上三件事:他们想要的时间范围,所以他们希望能够驱动汽车充电和充电汽车之间的时间。在美国,你在谈论最终想充电前驱车300多英里。客户需要的第二件事是他们希望能够充电汽车更快。所以他们希望能够充电电池更快。如果你今天在一个加油站停下来,你要花大约2到3分钟来填补你的车。电动汽车,今天你没有,所以客户想要的是平价对充气。第三件事,客户想要的是成本更低的成本。所以他们希望与内燃机成本平价。五年前,一个典型的汽车,将会花费20000美元,如果是运行在汽油可能会花费60000美元或50000美元的电动汽车等于它。这是客户想要真正从根本上三件事。 Now what OEMs and battery companies have done in order to meet those needs is focus on trying to make lighter materials, make your whole car lighter. They’ve worked on advancing battery technology to the point where you can actually drive for longer between recharges so the batteries themselves last longer and then the third one that they’ve done is they’ve actually enabled this faster charging. Part of that is really where LORD comes in. So faster charging longer range, all that means is that you need to have batteries that are more energy dense, batteries that are more power dense, and all of this also means that there’s going to be more heat that is put out by batteries. And so, if you want to accomplish all these goals of making the battery last longer, run longer, faster charger, then you actually need to have a way to get the heat out. So that’s where thermal management comes into the picture. Structural adhesives help replace mechanical fasteners, screws, rivets and things like that help reduce heat. Once again, that ties back into longer range so structural adhesive, which is really the bread and butter of LORD materials, that’s where we come in. A lot of the trends are because of what the customer wants and it also helps that LORD is in a really unique position to help provide value and help meet the goals of the OEMs and battery companies.
