Mercedes-Benz 48-Volt Battery L09-1 Production. Plant Kamenz, Saxony.

Stuttgart/Kamenz – Daimler starts the construction phase for a second battery factory at their subsidiary ACCUMOTIVE’s site in Kamenz, taking a further consequent step towards electromobility. With an investment of about 500 million euros, the site in Kamenz will be one of the biggest and most modern battery factories in Europe. For the official groundbreaking, Prof. Dr. Thomas Weber (Member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG, Group Research & Mercedes-Benz Cars Development), Markus Schäfer (Member of the Divisional Board of Mercedes-Benz Cars, Production and Supply Chain Management) and Frank Blome (CEO Deutsche ACCUMOTIVE GmbH & Co. KG) met with Stanislaw Tillich (Minister President of the Free State of Saxony and President of the German Bundesrat) and other representatives from politics and economy.

“By 2025, our passenger car product portfolio will contain more than ten fully electric vehicles. At the same time, we are continuously…