Mercedes-Benz expands battery provide partnership with CATL and new €7.34B battery plant in Hungary

Mercedes-Benz is taking one other step to scale up improvement and manufacturing of next-generation high-performance battery cells and modules by increasing its battery provide relationship with CATL by CATL’s newly introduced battery plant in Debrecen, Hungary.

CATL will make investments €7.34B to construct the 100 GWh battery plant in Debrecen—its second battery plant in Europe following its German plant. Topic to the shareholder assembly approval, building of the primary manufacturing amenities will begin inside this yr. The undertaking will provide each cells and modules to European automakers.

To construct a sustainable and round battery worth chain, CATL can also be inspecting the potential for becoming a member of forces with native companions to determine amenities for battery supplies in Europe.

The brand new manufacturing facility in Hungary expands a partnership between Mercedes-Benz and CATL which was first introduced in August 2020 and marks the subsequent milestone in a local-for-local buying technique.

The plant will present battery cells for the subsequent era Mercedes-Benz fashions. CO₂-neutral battery cell manufacturing for the newest Mercedes-Benz fashions was audited and authorized by third get together firms DEKRA and SGS. According to this technique, the brand new CATL plant in Hungary can even produce battery cells for Mercedes-Benz CO₂ neutrally.

There isn’t any doubt that our plant in Debrecen will allow us to additional sharpen our aggressive edge, higher reply to our clients in Europe, and speed up the transition to e-mobility in Europe. The green-field undertaking in Hungary might be a large leap in CATL’s world growth.

—Dr. Robin Zeng, founder and Chairman of CATL

Mercedes-Benz depends on a modular, extremely standardized battery equipment that enables the combination of battery cells and modules from completely different improvement companions by uniformly designed parts and interfaces. CATL will present these battery cells for the EV manufacturing on the European manufacturing websites of Mercedes-Benz in Germany and Hungary.

Mercedes-Benz’ aim is to achieve manufacturing capability of greater than 200 GWh at 8 world manufacturing websites by the top of decade.