BERLIN — Porsche is rushing up its e-mobility drive with plans for a German manufacturing unit to fabricate battery cells for electrical automobiles, CEO Oliver Blume informed a German newspaper.

“Battery cells are a key know-how for Germany’s car trade which we should even have in our personal nation,” Blume informed the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.

Porsche needs to play a pioneering position on this,” he mentioned, including that the battery cell manufacturing unit could be constructed within the Swabian city of Tuebingen.

European automakers want to cut back their dependence on Asian producers as they ramp up manufacturing of electrical automobiles to fulfill harder environmental guidelines within the European Union.

Porsche will buy EV batteries from its father or mother firm Volkswagen Group which plans to build half a dozen battery cell plants throughout Europe.

“However there can even be a section for high-performance battery cells,” Blume mentioned. “It is a Porsche area. Simply as we developed high-performance inside combustion engines, we now wish to be on the forefront of high-performance batteries.”

Current battery suppliers are specializing in quantity in order that extra specialised wants similar to Porsche’s are falling to the again of the road, Michael Steiner, Porsche’s growth chief, told Automotive News Europe earlier this month.