E-Bike Battery Cell Production in EU To Start in 2019

FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany – By 2019 the first battery cells are to be produced in Europe. Production scale will still be limited but is in the ten years after to grow to a level that will be sufficient to compete with the currently all in Asia based suppliers. At last week’s Eurobike, CEO Sven Bauer of Europe’s biggest battery maker BMZ, presented an update on the current state of affairs for the set-up of the European lithium-cell Gigafactory.