Thanks to innovative materials and development tools a great potential for weight saving can be exploited while ensuring the systems reliability and safety in case of failure. For this purpose, it is necessary to fully grasp the demands on the battery housing depending on different purposes in reality. Subsequently, the entire development process, which is required for the design of such battery housings, is evaluated. In various simulations, the behavior of the housing and the battery is simulated in different operating and fault conditions. Finally, a basic structure of the housing is constructed to validate the simulation by reproducing the operating conditions at the test bench.