SEAT & CUPRA has began sequence manufacturing of battery techniques at its Martorell plant in Spain, utilizing Volkswagen Group’s Unified Cell and cell-to-pack expertise. The power can produce 300,000 items yearly. The batteries will energy the CUPRA Raval and Volkswagen ID.Polo, each launching from the plant in 2026.
SEAT & CUPRA has begun sequence meeting of battery techniques at its plant in Martorell, Spain, in what the corporate describes as the ultimate step earlier than sequence manufacturing of the CUPRA Raval begins this summer season.
The battery techniques produced on the facility will energy each the CUPRA Raval and the Volkswagen ID.Polo, the 2 electrical fashions set to be constructed at Martorell. Each autos are a part of the Volkswagen Group’s Electrical City Automobile Household, developed underneath its Model Group Core division.
“The beginning of manufacturing of sequence meeting battery techniques marks a decisive milestone within the closing stretch of the transformation of our firm and takes us nearer to the sequence manufacturing of the CUPRA Raval,” says Markus Haupt, chief government of SEAT & CUPRA. “With the start of electric-vehicle manufacturing, Martorell will strengthen its place as a completely versatile plant, prepared to steer Spain’s transition to electrical mobility by producing electrical, hybrid, and extremely environment friendly combustion fashions.”
The battery techniques are constructed across the Volkswagen Group’s Unified Cell, a standardized battery expertise platform designed for scalability throughout manufacturers, areas, and automobile segments. The techniques use cell-to-pack expertise, eliminating intermediate module phases for a extra environment friendly meeting course of.
The plant has the capability to provide 1,200 battery techniques per day and as much as 300,000 items per yr — equal to at least one each 45 seconds. Meeting begins with two parallel operations: pre-assembly {of electrical} elements and cell stacking throughout two strains, which collectively produce 3,600 stacks per day via almost half one million welding factors. As soon as assembled and sealed, every battery system undergoes high quality checks earlier than being transported through a 600-meter bridge on to the automobile manufacturing line.
The E Field, which serves because the battery administration unit, is manufactured at SEAT & CUPRA’s El Prat Elements facility – a web site that spent 45 years producing handbook gearboxes earlier than being repurposed for electrical automobile element manufacturing.
“As a part of the Model Group Core of the Volkswagen Group, the Iberian Peninsula is strengthening its place as a European hub for electromobility,” says André Kleb, chief manufacturing officer for the Iberian Peninsula on the Volkswagen Group’s Model Group Core. “By means of the Electrical City Automobile Household undertaking, we’ll manufacture 4 electrical fashions in Spain, beginning with the CUPRA Raval, making electrical mobility accessible from the Iberian Peninsula to prospects throughout Europe.”
The 64,000 sq m battery meeting plant was in-built underneath two years and is staffed by 500 staff. Some 11,000 photo voltaic panels put in on its roof provide round 70% of the electrical energy required for the meeting course of.
SEAT & CUPRA has invested €10 billion in Spain’s electrification via its Future: Quick Ahead undertaking, in collaboration with the Volkswagen Group, PowerCo, and different companions.
