Lithium Battery Production By Country: Top 5 Countries

4. Poland

Share of global lithium-ion battery manufacturing capacity in 2021: 3.1%

Poland’s export of lithium-ion car batteries reached EUR 6.5 billion in 2021. 90 percent of batteries exported from Poland are lithium-ion batteries, making Poland the largest European producer of electric car batteries and the fifth largest in the world. The export of lithium-ion batteries and their components has exceeded 2 percent of total exports. Experts of the Polish Economic Institute claim that battery production capacity in Poland will grow despite the increase in prices. 

Many large companies like LG, SK Hi-tech Battery Materials Poland, KET Poland, Foosung and Enchem have opened their processing plants and factories in Poland. According to the reports of GlobalData, the production of electric vehicle batteries in Europe will increase more than in China by 2030. The demand for batteries will increase to 300 GWh in 2025 and is expected to reach 1300 GWh in 2035.

In June 2022, LG Energy Solution planned to double its capacity of nickel, cobalt and manganese battery cell production lines in Poland for Ford’s EVs by next year. In October, SK Innovation’s SK Technology opened its first production facilities for separators for use in electric car batteries in Poland. This separator plant has an annual capacity of 340 million square meters of separator film. This can equip around 300,000 electric cars. The company has planned a total of four plants for batteries in the Silesia region of Poland.