Vehicle OEM BMW Group will expand its battery manufacturing capacity from 2021 with a plant in Leipzig, Germany, to build modules for electrified vehicles.
The following year the company will invest more than €100 million in the site to prepare a module production plant comprising of 10,000 square meters as it prepares for the forecast increase in electrified vehicle sales.
Production of battery modules at the Leipzig site is scheduled to start mid-2021.
The BMW Group will buy battery cells from partners, depending on its specifications, with the company using different battery cells for the relevant vehicle.
The new plant will test and assemble cells into battery modules. The modules will then be mounted into aluminium casing along with the vehicle connectors, control units and cooling units.
To date, the high-voltage batteries for all electrified vehicles of the BMW and Mini brands have been produced at the three in-house battery production facilities in Dingolfing/Germany, Spartanburg/US and Shenyang/China.
