{"id":3849,"date":"2020-12-17T17:22:32","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T22:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/?p=3849"},"modified":"2026-03-26T07:06:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:06:18","slug":"moving-ev-manufacturing-into-the-fast-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/moving-ev-manufacturing-into-the-fast-lane\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving EV Manufacturing into the Fast Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/12\/Moving-EV-Manufacturing-into-the-Fast-Lane-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/12\/Moving-EV-Manufacturing-into-the-Fast-Lane-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/12\/Moving-EV-Manufacturing-into-the-Fast-Lane-600x338.png 600w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/12\/Moving-EV-Manufacturing-into-the-Fast-Lane-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/12\/Moving-EV-Manufacturing-into-the-Fast-Lane-900x506.png 900w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/12\/Moving-EV-Manufacturing-into-the-Fast-Lane.png 1287w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Automotive OEMs and startups seeking to become major electric mobility players are faced with the new and novel challenges that electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing presents, such as lightweighting, the transition to EV platforms, battery production, and supplier evolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the SME article \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sme.org\/technologies\/articles\/2020\/october\/ev-manufacturing\/?ite=2404&amp;ito=2450&amp;itq=b1337c3e-f5d4-4935-aca2-e174499fcbc8&amp;itx%5Bidio%5D=9907\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Moving EV Manufacturing Into the Fast Lane<\/a>\u201d written by our Siemens experts Shashi Rajagopalan and Greg Roth, these companies will need to adopt advanced manufacturing technologies, such as additive manufacturing, and develop modular production facilities to produce the lightweight and flexible platforms needed for next-generation EVs. They also stress that cost reduction and coordination across the manufacturer and supplier ecosystem will be critical to fostering the growth of EVs in the market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sme.org\/technologies\/articles\/2020\/october\/ev-manufacturing\/?ite=2404&amp;ito=2450&amp;itq=b1337c3e-f5d4-4935-aca2-e174499fcbc8&amp;itx%5Bidio%5D=9907\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at SME<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Authors:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/12\/Shashi_Rajagopalan_Aug_2020-738x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3851\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Shashi Rajagopalan<\/strong> <br>Director of Manufacturing Business Development and Marketing, Siemens Digital Industries Software<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/12\/Greg-Roth.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/12\/Greg-Roth.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/12\/Greg-Roth-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Greg Roth<\/strong> <br>Director of Automotive and Transportation Solutions, Siemens Digital Industries Software<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Automotive OEMs and startups seeking to become major electric mobility players are faced with the new and novel challenges that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83336,"featured_media":3852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[531,31,178,507,225],"industry":[113,114],"product":[423],"coauthors":[6141],"class_list":["post-3849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-digital-manufacturing","tag-digital-twin","tag-digitalization","tag-manufacturing","tag-tecnomatix","industry-automotive-transportation","industry-automotive-oems","product-tecnomatix"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/12\/Moving-EV-Manufacturing-into-the-Fast-Lane.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3849"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3856,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849\/revisions\/3856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3849"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=3849"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=3849"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}