Construction of MAN battery production facility complete

MAN Truck & Bus has announced construction on its new battery production facility in Nuremberg has been completed. After a year of building, the site is now preparing to start large-scale battery manufacturing from April 2025. The new factory saw a €100m investment in the building, logistics, infrastructure and production equipment. The 17,000sq m facility is expected to create close to 350 new jobs. 

MAN Truck & Bus CEO, Alexander Vlaskamp, said: “The drives of the future are being created in Nuremberg. Not only are we developing batteries here, but in a few months' time we will also be using the latest technologies to mass-produce them. The topping-out ceremony is an important milestone for our company on the road to the major transformation towards electromobility. And it is also a clear commitment by MAN to Bavaria and Germany as a business location. This was made possible by close collaboration between the company, our works council and Bavarian politicians.”

The site is already operational, producing battery packs in small series for MAN electric vehicles. Once large series production starts, the area used for small series production will be repurposed for next generation battery development and reconditioning. 

The facility will be equipped with more than 50 manual and automated assembly stations and seven test benches for quality control assessments. With the launch of large-scale manufacturing, the site will initially aim to produce around 50,000 batteries annually with capacity to build up to 100,000 every year by 2030. 

Ingo Essel, head of the MAN site in Nuremberg said: “The entry into electromobility is a decisive step into the future for our site. We have decades of expertise in the development and production of engines and are now also ideally placed to establish ourselves as a centre of excellence for alternative drive technologies.”