New management at battery start-up Customcells

Former Conti CTO Dirk Abendroth is to become the new CEO and is to make the start-up Customcells better known.

Dirk Abendroth will take over the management of Customcells as the new CEO. The former Conto CTO will also act as an intermediary between the automotive industry and support Customcells founders Torge Thönnessen and Leopold König in the series production of lithium-ion battery cells.

The start-up develops special battery cells to customer specifications. Porsche Ventures and Primepulse SE are also among the shareholders. Abendroth has previously worked in the automotive industry and was most recently CTO at automotive supplier Continental.

The electrical engineering graduate is now dedicating himself to the young start-up because he was looking for a challenge: "Customocells is a highly exciting company - on the one hand still young, agile and clearly structured, on the other hand with extremely high potential in an absolutely forward-looking industry," he says. For the future of Customocells, he has set himself the goal of making the battery cell manufacturer better known and networking it as a premium brand in Germany.