BATTERY CASING

The invention relates to a battery housing (1) for accommodating one or more cell blocks of a battery, wherein the space between an outer wall (2) and an inner wall (4) is provided with a supported vacuum insulation made of a porous support material (3), whereby this vacuum insulation is switchable between an insulation state and a passage state and is additionally provided with cooling elements (6, 12). This battery housing (1) on the one hand provides crash-safe accommodation of the cell blocks (5) accommodated in the battery housing (1) and furthermore offers passive or controllable and regulable thermal management such that the cell blocks (5) accommodated in the battery housing (1) can be cooled or heated as needed, in any case are maintained in a permissible temperature range in every operating state.