After a construction period of just one year, MAN Truck & Bus has inaugurated the new building for the large-scale production of batteries for fully electric trucks and buses at its Nuremberg site. From April 2025, high-voltage batteries will be manufactured industrially in Nuremberg using state-of-the-art production methods on 17,000 square metres. This will create almost 350 new jobs for the future. The investment volume for the new building, including investments in logistics, infrastructure, buildings and production facilities, totals around 100 million euros.
The new factory will contain eventually over 50 manual and automated assembly stations and seven test benches for quality assurance, which will be installed on an area of 17,000 square metres. The installation of the first production systems has already begun. From April 2025, up to 50,000 batteries per year will be built in an initial expansion phase. Depending on how the market develops, this capacity is to be expanded to up to 100,000 high-voltage batteries by 2030. At over 35 metres high, the new building is the tallest production building at the site. From April 2025, the delivered modules will be inserted into battery layers in large series production. These layers will be stacked on top of each other to form the battery pack and then put through their paces. Currently, battery packs for MAN's all-electric vehicles are already being produced in
small series at the Nuremberg site. With the start of large series production, the small series production area will be gradually converted to the development of the next battery generation and the reconditioning of batteries. The German State of Bavaria is also funding further development and research into battery technology with around 30 million euros. Among other things, this has enabled the integration of innovative laser welding cells. With an 8 kW disc laser, robot-guided optics and ultra-fine sensors, individual battery cells are electrically connected to each other with the highest precision and quality. Together with the Technical University (TU) of Munich, MAN is researching the further development of this technology, which will be used in a future generation of batteries.