Daimler To Invest €500M Inwards Novel Battery Mill Inwards Germany

Daimler volition invest 500 meg Euros inwards a novel battery manufactory inwards Germany. The novel battery manufactory volition hit lithium-ion battery packs for hybrid together with electrical vehicles for Mercedes-Benz together with smart brands.

Li-Tec, a subsidiary of the Daimler Group, ceased manufacture of battery cells inwards December 2015. The bulk of the 280 employees were transferred to the Deutsche Accumotive—also a wholly owned Daimler subsidiary—which manufactures battery packs based on LG Chem cells.

Daimler consistently expands its activities inwards the expanse of electromobility together with invests but about 500 meg Euros inwards the structure of a novel battery factory. This volition Pb to a pregnant expansion of the production capacities for lithium-ion batteries of Deutsche ACCUMOTIVE located inwards the Saxon metropolis of Kamenz.

The novel manufactory volition hit batteries for electrical together with hybrid vehicles of the brands Mercedes-Benz together with smart. As a get-go step, the total Daimler subsidiary has purchased almost xx hectares of province following to the existing battery factory.

"To become closer to fully electrical driving, nosotros perish on investing big inwards the fundamental cistron of emission-free vehicles: powerful batteries. We are instantly devoting some other 500 meg Euros to build a instant battery manufactory inwards Germany. This underlines our commitment to the consistent expansion of electromobility", said medico Dieter Zetsche, Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler AG together with Head of Mercedes-Benz Cars.

Daimler announced a initial 100 meg euros investment to expand East German linguistic communication battery pack output inwards 2014.

With the growing electrification of the automobile, the demand for highly efficient lithium-ion batteries is every bit good ascension steadily. Through its entry into the novel trouble organisation champaign amongst stationary battery storage for someone together with industrial applications, Deutsche ACCUMOTIVE volition tap into additional growth opportunities.

By the terminate of 2014, the Daimler subsidiary had already announced its plans for a pregnant increase inwards its production capacities together with an investment of but about 100 meg Euros inwards the expansion of the existing battery factory. "With the buy of the novel land, our production expanse at the site volition live on tripled.

The previous 20,000 foursquare meters volition live on stocked upward yesteryear an additional 40,000 foursquare meters of production space. We volition expand the production capacity consistently inwards the coming years", said Harald Kröger, Head of Development Electrics/Electronics together with e-Drive Mercedes-Benz Cars.

The groundbreaking ceremony for the novel manufactory is planned for autumn 2016. The topping-out ceremony volition together with therefore follow inwards jump 2017. The novel production establish is to start operations inwards summertime 2017.

Daimler entered into the trouble organisation amongst stationary battery storage amongst Deutsche ACCUMOTIVE final year. The scalability of the systems enables the purpose of the lithium-ion batteries inwards big manufacture for network stabilization together with smoothing of elevation shaving for unloose energy producers every bit good every bit someone households, for representative inwards conjunction amongst photovoltaic installations.

Mercedes-Benz unloose energy storage units for someone households tin already live on ordered together with volition shortly live on installed at customers inwards collaboration amongst selected sales partners. In the expanse of industrial applications, but about 29 megawatt volition live on connected to the network jointly amongst unlike partners.

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