Battery Production

Toyota has started battery production at its 13.9-billion-dollar gigafactory in North Carolina, where annual capacity is expected to reach around 30 gigawatt-hours by 2030.

SolarPower Europe has called on the European Commission to develop a specific action plan for battery storage capacity with the aim of increasing it tenfold by 2030.

Toyota has postponed the construction of a battery plant in Japan for the second time in order to reassess the project in 2026 and adjust its plans.

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.