Starting in 2025, MAN Truck & Bus will manufacture high-voltage batteries for electrical vans and buses in large-scale manufacturing at its Nuremberg website. To this finish, the corporate will make investments round €100 million over the following 5 years at its manufacturing website for combustion engines.
Manufacturing capacities might be expanded to greater than 100,000 batteries per yr. The investments within the improvement of battery manufacturing will safe 350 jobs; the funding resolution was made in shut cooperation between the corporate and the worker representatives and with the lively help of Bavarian politicians. The choice offers Nuremberg’s conventional location a transparent perspective for the longer term.
Initially, the batteries might be manufactured manually on the MAN plant in Nuremberg in a small collection manufacturing for about two and a half years. Building of large-scale manufacturing is scheduled to start out in mid-2023 and to be accomplished by the tip of 2024. MAN is thus laying the foundations for the large-scale industrialization of electrical drive techniques for vans and buses.
The business automobile producer is receiving help from the Bavarian State Authorities, which has promised a contribution of round €30 million to vitality analysis and know-how funding for the interval 2023 to 2027, supplied that the funding and budgetary necessities are met.
These funds might be used to conduct analysis in battery meeting, cell chemistry and improvement, battery security, and finally battery recycling to make sure the sustainability of the propulsion mode.
We are actually beginning to industrialize electromobility and proceed on our path to climate-neutral mobility in business autos. It’s a groundbreaking location and funding resolution for the following a long time. On the similar time, it’s a part of MAN’s transformation right into a supplier of sustainable transport options. This now paves the way in which for a business automobile e-cluster “made in Bavaria”, consisting of the manufacturing of e-trucks at MAN in Munich, battery manufacturing in Nuremberg, analysis & improvement at each places and glorious cooperation with the respective schools, universities and institutes.
—Alexander Vlaskamp, Chairman of the Govt Board of MAN Truck & Bus SE
High: The battery packs for the MAN Lion’s Metropolis E are lengthy and flat and mounted on the roof. Backside: The battery pack for the MAN eTruck.
Relying on the vary, a heavy electrical truck wants as much as six of battery packs. This may initially give MAN’s e-trucks a variety of 600 to 800 kilometers. Within the subsequent technology of battery know-how, ranges of as much as 1,000 kilometers are anticipated from round 2026. This may lastly make the e-truck appropriate for long-distance transport.
The MAN eTruck coming onto the market from 2024 onwards from collection manufacturing.
Across the center of the present decade, the whole value of possession for an e-truck and a diesel-powered one might be on the similar stage. MAN subsequently expects buyer demand for e-vehicles to extend considerably by then on the newest—assuming the suitable charging infrastructure is in place.
The manufacturing of heavy e-trucks will begin at MAN in Munich at the start of 2024. The producer has already put a small collection on the street in 2019. MAN has additionally had absolutely electrical metropolis buses and vans in the marketplace for a while.
With a historical past relationship again round 180 years, the Nuremberg plant is one in every of MAN’s roots. Vehicles or elements have been manufactured in Nuremberg for greater than 100 years. Immediately, the positioning with its roughly 3,600 workers is liable for the event, manufacturing, and exterior gross sales of all MAN diesel and fuel engines.
