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CATL Arnstadt

Contemporary Amperex Technology Thuringia · Arnstadt · DE · Batteries and solar · supply security

Operating14 GWh per year

CATL Arnstadt is Contemporary Amperex Technology Thuringia's batteries and solar project at Arnstadt, Germany.

Why it matters

It is running.

  • CATL Arnstadt started operating on 21 December 2022. as of 2022-12-21
  • It is at Arnstadt, Germany. as of 2022-12-21
  • It uses gigafactory-scale cell manufacturing and nickel-rich cells. as of 2022-12-21
  • It is built for 14 GWh per year. as of 2022-12-21
  • No committed public money is on file for it. as of 2022-12-21

Where CATL Arnstadt is

CATL Arnstadt is at Arnstadt cell works. Also in frame: 2 sites using the same technology.

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filled: operating, commissioning or under constructionhollow: announced, funded, or pausedringed: this project

50.8611° N 10.9502° EArnstadt cell works

as of 2026-07-22

Status

  1. Announced
  2. Funded
  3. FID taken
  4. In construction
  5. Operating2022-12-21
  • 2022-12-21OperatingCATL stated that 'the first batch of lithium-ion battery cells rolled off the newly installed production line under series condition in CATT's G2 building', with an initial 8 GWh per year rising to a planned 14 GWh.source

Technology and measures

  • Gigafactory-scale cell manufacturingcommercialElectrode coating, cell assembly and formation run at gigawatt-hour scale on one site. It is the process node rather than a chemistry: the same lines make several chemistries, and what decides whether Europe has cells is whether the lines exist and yield, not which cathode runs through them.
  • Nickel-rich cellscommercialNickel-manganese-cobalt and nickel-cobalt-aluminium cathodes. Higher energy density than iron phosphate and the chemistry most European cell capacity was designed around, at the cost of depending on nickel and cobalt.

Funding

No public capital recorded for this project.

Sources