The joint venture acquired the 28,151-square-meter site in the Reutlingen/Kirchentellinsfurt industrial park last year The Cellforce Group will initially develop and produce high-performance lithium-ion pouch cells for special automotive applications there The production plant is to enter operation with an initial capacity of at least 100 MWh per year and then ramp up to a capacity of at least 1 GWh – which the company says is equivalent to high-performance battery cells for around 10,000 vehicles The Federal Republic of Germany and the state of Baden-Württemberg are helping fund the project with approximately EUR 60 million the Cellforce Group will be working to develop and manufacture "a completely new standard" in the field of high-performance battery cells for the global automotive industry and technically highly innovative with our own high-performance battery cell development and production in Reutlingen-Kirchentellinsfurt we are taking the road to e-mobility together with our partners We are developing a completely new battery standard based on the use of silicon with an even higher energy density and thus range for vehicles The company is also working with BASF on new cathode materials and the recycling of production waste.  Porsche looks likely to produce high-performance battery cells on a much larger scale than previously planned The German carmaker will no longer do so with its partner Customcells but on its own the battery joint venture between Porsche and Customcells is said to have been completely taken over by Porsche in May Porsche wants to supply 180,000 to 200,000 of its own electric cars per year with performance cells with the massive expansion of production and possibly also supply competitors Manager Magazine writes that Porsche will probably have to invest more than one billion euros in the plant Series production in the Reutlingen-Kirchentellinsfurt area should start in spring 2024 Large-scale production could then start in two or three years The joint venture between Porsche and cell specialist Customcells from Itzehoe dates back to 2021 Porsche also took a stake in Customcells at the time The company’s demise is said to be related to the multiplication of production capacity: “The company with headquarters in Itzehoe has a turnover in the double-digit millions and the valuation is said to have approached half a billion euros in the last financing round to co-finance the plant near Tübingen in accordance with the joint venture share of 27 per cent,” Manager Magazin states Porsche took over complete ownership of Cellforce in May – no information has been thus far revealed about the financial scope of the deal If the details revealed by Manager Magazine prove to be correct, Porsche would be the first automotive OEM to build performance cells for electric sports cars on a large scale. It is possible that they could be used in a possible production version of the recently presented Mission X hypercar concept Porsche has been sourcing its cells from LG Energy Solution we received the news that the cell specialist has agreed on a “project-based partnership” with the Californian battery developer OneD Battery Sciences The aim is the joint development and industrialisation of BEV battery cells for an unnamed automotive OEM According to information from “Manager Magazin” Customcells is now entering the gigawatt-hour range with this project I agree with the Privacy policy electrive has been following the development of electric mobility with journalistic passion and expertise since 2013 we offer comprehensive coverage of the highest quality — as a central platform for the rapid development of this technology has laid the foundation stone for its development and production facility near Reutlingen-Kirchentellinsfurt it was also announced that production capacity is to be increased tenfold Cellforce acquired the 28,151-square-meter site there last year The company will initially develop and produce high-performance lithium-ion pouch cells for special automotive applications there the production facility is to go into operation with an initial capacity of at least 100 MWh per year What is new is the announcement that capacity will then be expanded to at least 1 GWh This corresponds to high-performance battery cells for around 10,000 vehicles The announcement does not say when the expansion will be completed Nor does it mention the background to the expansion plans – it is primarily about the foundation stone that has now been laid “Our desire is to strengthen the German development as well as production site and to bring a new technology to the global forefront of cell chemistry development,” says Cellforce CEO Markus Gräf “We have also decided to rely on partnerships and European technology on the production side we are also setting an example here – that we in Europe can do it all ourselves.” Cellforce and production partner Dürr had commissioned a new electrode coating plant at the beginning of October – the plant is still located at Dürr’s Bietigheim-Bissingen site but is to move to Cellforce’s Reutlingen-Kirchentellinsfurt plant in the future Porsche’s deputy CEO Lutz Meschke repeated the sports car maker’s familiar mantra that the battery cell is the “combustion chamber of the future “As a manufacturer of luxury electric vehicles and high-performance sports cars we want to be among the leaders in the global competition for the best-performing battery cell,” Meschke said added: “We are honoured that Porsche has relied on us here as a provider of ideas and as a partner – because it also shows us that our approach our expertise and our business model work.” The Federal Republic of Germany and the state of Baden-Württemberg are funding the project with around 60 million euros of which around 17 million euros will come from the state cellforcegroup.com Relaxt in die nächste Elektrophase: Porsche-Chef Oliver Blume will künftig in großem Stil Batteriezellen bauen – für Sportwagen