Porsche could find its giant battery cell manufacturing facility in Germany in any case, and never in North America as latest rumours recommended. In line with native media, Porsche is a website in Brandenburg, the identical state Tesla settled in, and close to one other precise accomplice.
Native newspaper Lausitzer Rundschau, citing insiders from politics and the regional enterprise neighborhood, stories {that a} “very well-known title within the automobile business” could be very desirous about a website on the Schwarzheide/Schipkau airfield within the district of Oberspreewald-Lausitz. In line with analysis by the newspaper, Porsche and its battery subsidiary Cellforce need to arrange store within the Northeast German lake district, because the Lausitz area can also be known as.
Porsche didn’t deny the rumours when requested for remark however stored a low profile: In addition to the manufacturing facility underneath building close to Reutlingen, the corporate is inspecting a possible enlargement to over 20 gigawatt-hours at a second location. “The choice on that is to be made by the top of 2023,” the Porsche press workplace stated.
This corresponds to the final data we reported on the finish of July. At the moment, it was suspected that Porsche may desire North America over Germany as the situation for its large-scale battery cell manufacturing facility. Cellforce’s first location within the inter-municipal financial space of Reutlingen-Nord/Kirchentellinsfurt can also be to be expanded, however in all probability solely as much as 1.3 GWh – extra is probably not attainable there.
Talks across the airfield with a grass runway have already taken place. Nonetheless, Brandenburg’s Ministry of Economics didn’t need to title names when requested by the LR because the “talks should stay confidential”. Schipkau’s mayor, Klaus Prietzel, who can also be chairman of the brand new joint planning affiliation with the city of Schwarzheide, solely acknowledged on the whole phrases: “The particular touchdown subject and its environment have lengthy been assessed as an industrial website for large-scale business settlement because of its beneficial location when it comes to state planning.”
One level that’s actually attention-grabbing for Porsche and Cellforce is that BASF’s giant manufacturing facility in Germany, together with the cathode materials and recycling plant, is immediately reverse on the opposite facet of the A13 motorway. BASF has been Cellforce’s improvement accomplice since 2021. However BASF is reportedly constructing a cathode materials manufacturing facility in Becancour, Canada, and will additionally provide Cellforce in North America.
With reporting by Sebastian Schaal, Germany.
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