Automotive Cells Company, ACC, Inaugurates its Industrial Center of Excellence in Nersac – Angoulême

Automotive Cells Company, ACC, inaugurates its Industrial Center of Excellence in Nersac – Angoulême.

Automotive Cells Company will inaugurate its Industrial Center of Excellence in Nersac – Angoulême, where the first electric batteries for cars “made in France” will be produced!

Only 18 months after its creation, and less than 6 months after the inauguration of its Research and Development Centre in Bordeaux – Bruges (33), ACC is about to reach a new milestone in its young existence.  

On Friday, March 11, its Industrial Center of Excellence of Nersac (near Angoulême) will be inaugurated. Batteries “made in France”, for electric cars it starts here!

Yann Vincent, ACC’s CEO, said:

By inaugurating our Industrial Centre of Excellence, we are continuing to execute our business plan and will compete to become the European champion of batteries for electric vehicles.

“In 18 months, we’ve come a long way! ACC’s teams are continually evolving and working tirelessly to execute our roadmap.  The Centre of Expertise in Bordeaux is less than 6 months old! Today, Nersac, allows us to test all our product and process innovations at scale before their industrial implementation in the Gigafactories.”

“Before the end of 2023 we’ll start the production of the 1st factory in the Hauts-de-France, and in the longer term, the 2nd factory will be built in Kaiserslautern in Germany. By 2030, the objective is to produce batteries for more than 2.5 million vehicles per year!”.

ACC is the result of an initiative undertaken by Stellantis and TotalEnergies —together with its subsidiary Saft— soon to be joined by Mercedes-Benz, and strongly supported by France, Germany, and the European Union.  Its expansion will help Europe meet the mobility challenges of the energy transition and will secure the supply of this key component for the automotive industry.

Highlights:

• The Centre of Industrial Excellence of Nersac – Angoulême (16) is:
   
  • A complete production line with equipment identical to those of the 2 future Gigafactories of Billy-Berclau / Douvrin (France) and Kaiserslautern (Germany).
     
  • A state-of-the-art production plant, with the highest quality and environmental standards, designed to:
    • Develop, test, and deliver prototype batteries “made in France”
    • Test all future innovations of manufacturing processes, their industrial efficiency (“factory 4.0”), their adaptation to the next generation of technology. All this, before any deployment in Gigafactories.
       
  • A construction site inaugurated by President Emmanuel Macron in 2020. A 24,000 m2 building on a 45,000 m2 site, built in less than 16 months.
     
  • An investment of 100 million euros by ACC’s shareholders Saft/TotalEnergies and Stellantis, and supported by local and national authorities, and FEDER funds.
     
  • The Employee Training Center for future ACC Gigafactories.
     
• With this inauguration, ACC continues its development and confirms its ambition to become the European leader in batteries for electrical vehicles.

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Automotive Cells Company inaugurates its Industrial Center of Excellence in Nersac – Angoulême, March 2, 2022