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"We are very happy that an investor that has been with us for a
few years has entrusted us again and in the same place in Jawor,"
Morawiecki said at a press conference, according to public news
channel TVP.
Daimler is already building a plant to produce engines in Jawor.
Mercedes-Benz Cars board member Markus Schafer told the
conference that the new investment would create 300 jobs and
that investments would total over 200 million euros.
Daimler will buy battery cells worth more than 20 billion euros
($23 billion) by 2030 as it readies mass production of hybrid
and electric vehicles, the company said in December.
The company is one of a number of German automakers expanding in
electric vehicles as European regulators clamp down on toxic
diesel emissions.
The auto industry currently has a range of different battery
recipes competing for use in battery cathodes. One is NCA, or
lithium nickel cobalt aluminum oxide, produced by Panasonic and
used by Tesla.
Chinese manufacturers use a composition called LFP which has a
lower energy density but does without cobalt, while Japanese
carmakers use LMO, or lithium manganese oxide, which is used by
Nissan and LG Chem.
(Reporting by Pawel Florkiewicz and Joanna Plucinska; Editing by
Louise Heavens)
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