Battery Production

Chinese battery manufacturer Gotion High-Tech has begun construction of a gigafactory in Šurany, Slovakia. A comparable Gotion plant is currently being built in Morocco.

Volkswagen subsidiary PowerCo has begun construction of a 90-gigawatt-hour, five-billion-US-dollar battery cell factory in Canada, the companyʼs first such facility outside of Europe.

“TRICERA energy” and Eurus Energy Europe will be integrating a new battery storage system into an existing wind farm infrastructure in the Netherlands.

China-based Gushine Electronics has started production of high-performance battery packs for industrial and commercial applications in Vietnam.

Online voting for the audience-determined E-Mobility Production Award for the best process innovation in battery production is now open.

Siemens Mobility plans to begin series production of battery systems for trains in October 2027 at a 35-million-euro plant to be built in Bavaria.

At its newly commissioned site in Hungary, BMW Group will manufacture sixth-generation (Gen6) batteries for its New Class for the first time, directly at the vehicle plant.

The Swedish government has approved the takeover of the insolvent battery manufacturer Northvolt by US group Lyten. All remaining sites are to be retained.

Voltfang and Palladio Partners are going to jointly invest around 250 million euros in the construction of large-scale battery storage facilities in Germany by 2029.

Panasonic intends to develop electric vehicle batteries by 2027 whose anodes form themselves from lithium metal during first charge.