The invention relates to a pouch cell, in particular a pouch cell for a battery of an electric vehicle, with a soft body, the body consisting of a soft and flexible plastic main material, wherein the plastic main material forms a bag (12) for encapsulating at least one battery cell and wherein the bag (12) has at least one sealing area (30) where the bag (12) was sealed after being filled with the at least one battery cell wherein the sealing area (30) comprises a modified sealing material and/or the sealing area (30) comprises an additional sealing material (32) such that the melting temperature of the sealing bag is reduced in the sealing area (30) compared to the melting temperature of the plastic main material.