cellcentric Managing Director (CCO & COO) Lars Johansson moves to Shareholder Volvo Group
- Lars Johansson, Managing Director (CCO & COO), will leave the company at his own request on April 30, 2025.
- The Supervisory Board and Management Board would like to thank Lars Johansson. His commitment and expertise had a decisive influence for the ramp up of cellcentric especially for the industrialization and scale-up of production.
Kirchheim/Teck - cellcentric, the 50:50 fuel cell joint venture of Daimler Truck AG and the Volvo Group, announces a change in organizational structure. After 4 years at cellcentric - and the last 12 years abroad - cellcentric Managing Director (CCO & COO) Lars Johansson will move back to Sweden.
At cellcentric, Lars Johansson as part of the management team and spokesperson of the board of directors has done a great job by ramping-up cellcentric in the areas of process development, industrialization and scale-up of production, as well as active marketing of cellcentric’s fuel cell technology in markets for heavy-duty transport applications. From May on he will be contributing his knowledge and commitment to the Volvo Group as Senior Vice President for Project and Product Strategy Office and continues to support the transformation to CO2-neutral transportation and success of new technologies such as fuel cells.
“It has been 4 fantastic years at cellcentric and it's with a lot of emotions I have decided to leave this fantastic team and move from Schwaben to Sweden”, Lars Johansson says. “What we have achieved together in recent years is truly groundbreaking. I am 100% sure we are on the right way to success.”
For the past four years, Lars Johansson has been firmly convinced day after day that the transformation to CO2-neutral transportation requires Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles. “And cellcentric have the best and most competitive Fuel Cell System tailor made for heavy-duty long-haul applications, a vertical integrated production for series industrialization and volume scaling, as well as the best, most competent and amazing team,” summarizes Lars Johansson.
Structural changes for consistent implementation
With the departure of Lars Johansson as cellcentric Managing Director (CCO & COO), the responsibility for External Affairs and Sales, Marketing and Communication will move to Nicholas Loughlan, Managing Director & Chief Technology Officer and thereby also taking over as the spokesperson for the cellcentric management board effective by May 1, 2025.
Nicholas Loughlan says: "We would like to thank Lars not only for his dedication to cellcentric's mission, but also for being a fantastic colleague. We wish him all the best in his new assignment at the Volvo Group."
The recruitment of the successor for Lars Johansson as Managing Director and COO at cellcentric is currently ongoing.
About cellcentric
cellcentric develops, produces, and markets fuel cell systems for use in heavy-duty commercial vehicles as the focus as well as offroad applications. cellcentric is a joint venture founded in 2021 between Daimler Truck AG and the Volvo Group. The company utilizes the know-how and extensive experience gained from decades of developing fuel cell systems by its predecessor companies. cellcentric’s goal is to become a leading global manufacturer of fuel cells and thus making a contribution to climate-neutral and sustainable transportation by 2050. More than 560 highly qualified employees are driving our state-of-the-art fuel cell technology forward. They work in interdisciplinary teams at our sites in Kirchheim/Teck, Stuttgart, Esslingen (Germany) and Burnaby (Canada). Roughly 700 individual intellectual property rights were filed, underline the company’s leading role in technological development.
Contact cellcentric:
Christian Kleinert
+49 (0)175 5337198
christian.kleinert@cellcentric.net
