Germany Exits Ev Battery Jail Mobile Telephone Industry Business
The alone High German mill that produces battery cells for electrical cars is closing. Within piffling to a greater extent than than ane year, the companionship Li-Tec inwards Saxon Kamenz, volition cease industry of battery cells. The companionship is a subsidiary of the Daimler Group.
"Our cells are real good, but at electrical flow production figures also expensive", the Daimler-manager Harald Kröger justified the closure inwards an interview with SPIEGEL. Last week, Daimler had 250 employees internally announced the halt of the factory, to a greater extent than than one-half should last able to rest inwards the group. Only volume production makes such factories profitable. Therefore, it was purpose of the Daimler-calculus that other auto companies participate as well as would larn out arrive at inwards Kamenz cells for their e-Mobile. But the partners did non materialize.
Now the companionship changes its strategy. "We accept realised that a automobile manufacturer does non accept to arrive at the cells themselves," says Kroeger.
The Li-Tec mill volition unopen Dec 2015 but volition last retained every bit a interrogation location; the bulk of the 280 employees volition last transferred to the Deutsche Accumotive—also a wholly owned Daimler subsidiary—which manufactures battery packs. Accumotive is currently expanding its production capacity to railroad train systems for the adjacent generation of the electrical smart alongside others. Cells are slated to come upwardly from LG Chem.
