The company names Deutsche Accumotive's facilities the world's biggest, and most modern battery factories, while the media have dubbed it Daimler's battery Gigafactory in Europe.

However, Daimler's approach seems different than Tesla, as the factory will only assemble the packs for cars and energy storage systems. At Tesla cite they of course produce the lithium-ion cells  themselves, while Daimler is using lithium-ion cells from LG Chem.

Daimler also didn't disclosed production capacity of the factory, scheduled for launch in mid-2018.

The one number that we do know is €500 million, the cost of the second factory.

As of today, Deutsche Accumotive have produced around 80,000 battery packs in its first facility (for electric and hybrid cars, and probably also including also ESS).

Daimler's wholly owned subsidiary is expanding production capacity in a broader campaign to provide batteries for more than 10 all-electric models by 2022, as well as hybrids, plug-in hybrids, and energy storage systems sold under the Mercedes-Benz brand.