The automaker is intensifying its electrification efforts in Germany a day after announcing plans to produce its first EVs in the USA.
The two additional battery assembly lines at Leipzig now being announced, will be installed by 2024 to combine battery modules, connectors, control units and cooling systems into aluminium cases of various sizes and shapes depending on the model.
The five battery cell coating lines, all of which will be installed gradually in 2023 from the first quarter, will apply coatings providing insulation, a process which occurs following plasma cleansing. The insulated cells are then assembled into modules.
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