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EVENT REVIEW: THE BATTERY SHOW EUROPE 2019

The Battery Show Europe 2019
May 7-9 • Stuttgart, Germany

Europe’s fastest

growing trade fair

moves to new home

This year’s Battery Show Europe the continent’s calendar. meeting in September promises to
kicked off on May 7 with a busy The event is a spin-off from its attract more than 8,500 attendees
conference agenda and an even bus- North American parent, which was and 650 suppliers.
ier exhibition. launched in eight years ago in the US Since being shipped across the At-
In the space of just three years it and for the past seven years has been lantic three years ago, the Battery
has clearly become one of the most firmly embedded in Novi, a suburb Show Europe has taken the Euro-
important energy storage events on of Detroit in Michigan. This year’s pean market by storm since the first
event in April 2017 in Sindelfingen
— strategically located near both
BMW’s and Mercedes’ manufactur-
ing plants. In 2018 the organizers
said it attracted 368 exhibitors and
over 6,000 attendees. All the big
OEM names of the European and
international industry attended.
Again size proved to be a limita-
tion and this year’s shift to Stuttgart
reflected the fact that the number of
exhibitors had jumped to more than
450 and the number of attendees
had grown to more than 8,000.
As has been the case in the past,
the event was co-located with an
Electric & Hybrid Vehicle Technol-
ogy show.

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