Image: Cellforce GroupThe Cellforce Group was initially established as a joint venture between Porsche and Customcells to develop and produce bespoke high-performance battery cells tailored to the demands of Porsche’s electric sports cars. In 2023, however, Porsche took full control of Cellforce and expanded its ambitions, only to make a U-turn in April 2025 and almost completely halt Cellforce’s operations by August 2025. At the time, reportedly 200 out of 290 employees were made redundant, with the remaining staff offered the option to transfer to VW subsidiary PowerCo in Salzgitter.Since then, the workforce at Cellforce has shrunk even further, with only 50 employees remaining, according to Porsche. The company stated: “As part of Porsche AG’s strategic realignment and its technology-open powertrain strategy, Cellforce GmbH no longer has a sufficiently viable long-term perspective. The management will therefore initiate discussions with the works council regarding the closure of the company.”Just days ago, Porsche found a buyer for its stake in the Croatian Rimac Group and the joint venture Bugatti Rimac, namely a consortium led by the financial investor HOF Capital, backed by the Egyptian billionaire Sawiris family. Porsche CEO Michael Leiters explained this move by stating that the company wanted to focus on its core business.The same reasoning is now being applied to Cellforce. Porsche CEO Leiters said: “Porsche must refocus on its core business. This is the indispensable foundation for a successful strategic realignment. This forces us to make painful cuts — including our subsidiaries.”In addition to Cellforce, where only 50 jobs are at risk, the much larger Porsche eBike Performance GmbH, which employs 350 people, is also being wound down due to ‘fundamentally changed market conditions.’ The planned closure of this specialist in e-bike drive systems affects its two sites in Ottobrunn and Zagreb. This move also severs another tie in Porsche’s entanglement with Rimac, as Porsche eBike Performance had temporarily included Greyp, the e-bike manufacturer founded by Mate Rimac.Furthermore, Porsche’s software subsidiary Cetitec in Pforzheim is also ceasing operations. The company previously developed specialised software for data communication for Porsche and the entire Volkswagen Group. Here, too, the market environment has shifted, and development scopes have been relocated. Around 60 employees in Germany and 30 in Croatia are affected.porsche.com