Škoda Auto has opened a €205 million cell-to-pack battery manufacturing facility at Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic, changing into the Volkswagen Group’s largest BEV battery system producer. The plant can assemble as much as 335,000 models yearly utilizing LFP chemistry at 84% automation.
Škoda Auto has opened a €205 million battery manufacturing facility at its Mladá Boleslav headquarters within the Czech Republic, making it the biggest producer of battery electrical automobile (BEV) battery methods within the Volkswagen Group.
The 55,000 m² plant, in-built underneath a yr, is the primary Volkswagen Group website in Europe to provide cell-to-pack battery methods for high-volume electrical autos. With 131 industrial robots and an automation fee of 84%, the road can assemble one battery system each 60 seconds, enabling a each day output of greater than 1,100 models and annual capability of as much as 335,000.
“With this funding, Škoda turns into the biggest producer of BEV battery methods inside the Volkswagen Group and a central pillar of our electrification technique,” says Thomas Schäfer, chair of the Škoda supervisory board, Volkswagen Group board member and Volkswagen model chief govt. “The plant in Mladá Boleslav operates at true industrial scale and reinforces the European battery worth chain.”
By totally insourcing the cell-to-pack course of, utilizing standardized cells and adopting lithium iron phosphate (LFP) chemistry, Škoda says it has achieved a 30% discount in battery product prices in contrast with present Modular Electrical Drive Toolkit (MEB) batteries. The methods will provide Škoda fashions and autos from different Group manufacturers throughout a number of segments.
Klaus Zellmer, chief govt of Škoda Auto, says the ability helps the corporate’s broader decarbonization targets. “Lowering emissions goes far past the automobile itself – it contains sourcing, manufacturing and power use,” he explains. “With the opening of our new battery system meeting line, we’re localising battery manufacturing at scale, strengthening a extra resilient and aggressive European worth chain, and making electrical mobility extra accessible.”
Zellmer provides that the corporate is changing its central energy plant from coal to biomass, a transfer anticipated to chop emissions by round 274,000 tonnes of CO₂ by 2027.
The opening ceremony on February 27 was attended by Czech prime minister Andrej Babiš and minister of business and commerce Karel Havlíček.
Škoda has produced roughly 1.4 million battery methods at Mladá Boleslav since 2019. In accordance with Andreas Dick, Škoda Auto board member for manufacturing and logistics, the brand new cell-to-pack line represents the following step in bringing manufacturing in-house. “Round 84% automation, 131 industrial robots and a cycle time of 60 seconds per battery system guarantee a excessive each day output of persistently prime quality,” he says. The corporate has retrained or newly employed 600 folks for the expanded operation.
The funding can even allow Škoda to provide as much as 200,000 electrical autos yearly at its most important plant. In 2025, Škoda greater than doubled its BEV deliveries and have become the fourth best-selling BEV model in Europe, pushed largely by the Elroq. In 2026, the corporate plans to double its all-electric portfolio with the addition of the entry-level Epiq and the upper-segment Peaq.
