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Accelerating the battery industry

As the world accelerates toward electric mobility and clean energy, battery demand is set to grow exponentially in the next decade. Decarbonization is critical for the planet’s survival, and achieving it requires the development of highly efficient, cost-effective batteries.

Battery manufacturers are racing to accelerate production, market entry, and revenue growth. Only those who successfully balance speed, cost and quality will thrive.

In a race where time is critical, Capgemini leverages digital simulation, engineering expertise, and a strong partner ecosystem to address key challenges in the battery industry with our accelerated solutions environment (ASE) workshops that will fast-track your progress.

As a trusted advisor, we bring deep knowledge across the full battery value chain, applying a comprehensive approach that integrates business, operations, technology, engineering, and chemistry. We can be your guide, providing insights around our proven capabilities:

  • Scale & Time-to-Market – From construction to operations, Capgemini accelerates deployment with digital and engineering capabilities implementing end-to-end optimized business processes such as ERP, MES, and MOM, leading to a hyper-efficient gigafactory.
  • Talent – The Capgemini Battery Academy provides an end-to-end solution for hiring, training, and certifying workers, ensuring gigafactories have the skilled talent needed for on-time production.
  • End-to-End Visibility – With AI-driven, data-backed solutions, Capgemini ensures regulatory compliance to circular economy practices, traceability, resilient supply chains and closed-loop operations, optimizing performance from enterprise level to shop floor.

Battery regulations are evolving fast. With Capgemini, you get end-to-end digital traceability—ensuring full Battery Passport compliance without slowing down innovation.

Capgemini is playing a key role in the battery industry

We cofounded the European battery alliance with InnoEnergy, bringing together more than 800 industrials and innovation actors. Together with key research institutions and industrial partners, we have developed a first-of-its-kind Technology Cluster Battery Cell to drive innovation in the domain. We deliver powerful impact to gigafactory players, from strategic design, R&D, and pilot line to gigafactory ramp-up.

With a strong portfolio of use cases, partners, and assets, we are ready to accelerate your journey across the battery ecosystem from development to scale-up.

Intelligent together:

  • Optimized 200+ plants for a German tech giant
  • Reduced lead time for new line deployment at an American multinational
  • Streamlined workflow at 20+ plants for a Dutch automotive corporation
  • Established a single source of truth for all the information of a vehicle’s lifecycle for a Swedish EV manufacturer
  • Improved cost-efficiency for a luxury car maker, using recyclable materials
  • Set up a production facility for low-carbon batteries for a French manufacturer.

Capgemini and Ascendance extend their partnership to accelerate industrialization

Capgemini has joined forces with the start-up to scale its innovative solutions and bring the Group’s end-to-end capabilities for the industrialization of a new generation of aircraft, with a significantly reduced environmental footprint

Expert perspectives

Meet our experts

Pierre Bagnon

EVP, Global Head of Intelligent Industry Accelerator
Pierre is Executive Vice President at Capgemini, heading Intelligent Industry for the group. He focuses on digital and sustainable transformation, entailing intelligent operations, intelligent product and services and digital continuity, with a particular focus in the Manufacturing and Automotive sectors. With more than 10 years of experience in advanced manufacturing, Pierre is a global subject matter expert for Smart factory and Industrial ramp-up.

Vincent Charpiot

Executive Vice President, Head of Group Sustainability Accelerator
I am a senior business executive and global business leader with extensive experience in helping clients manage their digital transformations. I lead the Group Sustainability Accelerator and my focus is to ensure we go to market with a unique Sustainability Services portfolio and ecosystem to help our clients on their journey to Net Zero, in an evolving ESG regulation.

Sam Baker

Manufacturing & Operations practice lead, North America
Sam currently leads a team of consultants focused on manufacturing and process engineering, industrial operations and compliance, quality and regulatory disciplines across all vertical industries in helping clients to enhance day to day manufacturing operations. He has hands-on design and manufacturing expertise in mobile handsets, telecom network equipment, and semiconductor fabrication plants including related software applications and operating systems. Prior to Capgemini, he held multiple leadership positions as Partner and Managing Director at Accenture, IBM, and Samsung Electronics.

Michael Müller

Head of Climate Tech & Sustainability, Capgemini Engineering
Enabling a technology-driven transition to a decarbonized industry by innovations in climate tech and sustainable products & services.

Patrick Sitek

Expert in Digital Transformation and Innovation