Northvolt Battery Plant Comes to Life

On Wednesday, Northvolt announced that its new gigafactory in Sweden had assembled the cell for its first battery. This would make the company the first in Europe to design and manufacture a battery.

The cell is made of a prismatic format with several thinner and lighter cells combining...

JOINT VENTURE BETWEEN NORSK HYDRO AND NORTHVOLT

Highlights –

• A joint venture between Norsk Hydro and Northvolt.
• The companies have come together to focus on creating a better electric vehicle sector.
• Northvolt to collect their raw material from recycled batteries.

Northvolt is building a greener battery future

He has a point-it seems like an unlikely location I've been telling him about for the billion-dollar battery start-up. Northvolt aims to build the first home-grown "Gigafactory" of lithium-ion batteries in Germany, most of which are intended for electric vehicles. Because of the sca...