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Production expertise – High-voltage batteries and cells.

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Production expertise – High-voltage batteries and cells.

From inception to production and recycling: the BMW Group replicates the entire high-voltage battery and battery cell value chain in-house – in its centres of excellence and with a holistic approach.

Our Battery Cell Competence Centre in Munich carries out research into new cell technologies – for which our excellence centre for battery production develops manufacturing methods. The focus of our experts is on producing top-quality battery cells with minimum resources.

And that’s not all: the BMW Group also operates a Centre of Excellence for Battery Cell Recycling, which uses an innovative direct recycling process to recover valuable raw materials from used batteries and return them to production. A major step towards a circular economy.

Battery cells are a key component of any high-voltage battery, but before they can enter large-scale production, the right production processes have to be engineered to make them, and pre-series batteries undergo rigorous testing. At the BMW Group, this is done at pilot plants in Munich itself and in nearby Parsdorf and Hallbergmoos.

Find out more about these key locations here. 

Battery Cell Competence Centre (BCCC), Munich.

The BCCC in the north of Munich develops future generations of high-voltage batteries and carries out small-scale production. Thanks to our state-of-the-art labs, research facilities and prototype engineering, our expertise encompasses the entire battery cell value chain.

A crucial role in all of this falls to artificial intelligence, and in cooperation with the University of Zagreb, we are developing data-driven processes to increase precision in workflows and streamline production more generally. Our BCCC is developing into a future lab for electromobility and an authority in research and advancement.

Address BCCC Munich.

BMW Group Battery Cell Competence Centre (BCCC)
Lemgostraße 7, 80935 Munich
Telephone: +49 89 382-0

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Cell Manufacturing Competence Centre (CMCC), Parsdorf.

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Address CMCC Parsdorf.

BMW Group Cell Manufacturing Competence Centre Parsdorf (CMCC)
Am Gewerbepark 1
85599 Vaterstetten
E-Mail: Visit.Parsdorf1@bmw.de

The best battery cells from the BCCC are then manufactured on a pilot production line at the CMCC and scaled up for series production. The facility, which has about 15,000 square metres of floor space, produces prototypes of the battery cells that will soon be powering the Neue Klasse models. It replicates the entire production chain, from the manufacture of electrodes to production of the finished cell. The aim is to test the new technologies in a realistic production environment.

Cell manufacturing: Production stages in prototype production at the CMCC.

The first step in cell manufacturing is electrode production. Exact doses of the basic materials – including graphite and nickel oxides – are mixed to create what’s known as slurry. This is then applied in a wafer-thin coat to metallic foils and compressed in a process referred to in the industry as calendering. Calendering requires absolute precision, as the foils are just a few micrometres thick – thinner than the strands of a spider’s web.

In cell assembly the foils – which have been cut to shape and are now referred to as electrodes – are wound with other subcomponents and inserted into the cell casing. They now form cells, which are filled with electrolyte, charged and quality-tested. 

Cell Recycling Competence Centre (CRCC), Salching.

As electromobility takes hold, the focus is increasingly shifting to battery cell recycling. At the CRCC the BMW Group and its joint venture Encory are taking a process called direct recycling onstream. The innovative methodology allows residues from battery cell production and complete battery cells to be mechanically dismantled to access their precious constituents. The raw materials recovered in this way are then returned straight to pilot production of battery cells.

The experience gained at the CRCC provides the foundation for new and intelligent industrial-scale recycling strategies. After the BCC and the CMCC, the CRCC represents the next step in the BMW Group’s battery cell strategy, which is working towards the circular economy.

Address CRCC Salching.

Encory Kompetenzzentrum für Batteriezellrecycling Salching (CRCC) 
Industriestraße 20
94330 Salching

Raw materials from battery cells for direct recycling.

High-Voltage Battery Pilot Plants.

In late 2025 the BMW Group’s Neue Klasse will herald a new era in fully electric driving. A key component in any electric car is the high-voltage battery. But before the battery can go into large-scale series production, suitable manufacturing processes must be developed and pre-series batteries must undergo rigorous testing. This is carried out at the BMW Group’s high-voltage battery pilot plants in the Research & Innovation Centre (FIZ) in Munich and nearby Parsdorf and Hallbergmoos. 

The BMW Group is currently building five new assembly facilities across three continents for series production of high-voltage batteries for the sixth generation of BMW eDrive: Irlbach-Straßkirchen (Lower Bavaria). Debrecen (Hungary), Shenyang (China), San Luis Potosí (Mexico) and Woodruff (US). 

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Parsdorf.

Parsdorf is the BMW Group’s largest pilot plant for high-voltage batteries. The 350-strong team first started producing early prototype high-voltage batteries in summer 2023. To make sure they meet the rigorous quality standards in development and, later, in series production, the battery packs undergo a multitude of tests. Since 2024 some of the high-voltage batteries have been sent to the vehicle plant in Hungary, to be fitted to Neue Klasse test cars.

Address.

Am Gewerbepark 2, 85599 Vaterstetten

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Hallbergmoos.

Another pre-series plant for high-voltage batteries is located in Hallbergmoos, not far from Munich Airport. Since the summer of 2024, this facility has been developing production technologies for high-voltage battery assembly. With about 200 colleagues working on smaller-scale battery production, Hallbergmoos serves as a model for series production at Plant Woodruff, not far from Spartanburg in the US.

Address.

Am Söldnermoos 21, 85399 Hallbergmoos

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Munich (AEC).

Prototypes and smaller module variants for high-voltage batteries are also manufactured and tested in the Research & Innovation Centre (FIZ) in Munich. At the recently opened Aero-acoustic and E-Drive Centre (AEC), a team of about 200 people work across several floors, with a further space offering clean-room conditions for the pilot production line for inverters. The inverters made here will be a key component in forthcoming electric drives, converting direct current from the high-voltage battery into alternative current to drive the electric motor.

Address.

Knorrstraße 147, 80788 Munich

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