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Into 2022, construction works are underway for developing Northvolt Ett to its full capacity of 60 GWh. The expansion entails the build of a second upstream cathode block – 150% the size of the first – and three additional downstream cell manufacturing blocks. Ultimately covering some 1.5 million square meters of subarctic land in northern Sweden, Northvolt Ett will produce cells with the lowest carbon footprint in the world.
With Northvolt having amassed an order book valued over $50 billion, much of Northvolt Ett production capacity is sold out. Cells produced at Northvolt Ett will supply several of Europe’s leading automotive customers and industrial actors, including Volkswagen, BMW, Scania, Volvo Cars and Polestar, as well as Northvolt Systems in Poland.
A second gigafactory is being developed through the Northvolt–Volvo Cars joint venture, announced in June 2021. To be established in Gothenburg, Sweden, the 50 GWh gigafactory is set enter construction in 2023, for large scale production commencing in 2026. Cell output of the gigafactory is committed to Volvo Cars and Polestar, for whom Northvolt is the exclusive battery cell production partner in Europe.
Most recently, Northvolt Drei was announced in March – a cell manufacturing gigafactory to be established in Heide, northern Germany, with annual capacity of 60 GWh and the ambition to produce cells with the lowest carbon footprint in continental Europe when it comes online in late 2025.
Northvolt Drei, like the Northvolt–Volvo Cars gigafactory, will not feature cathode production. To supply cathode to these plants, Northvolt Fem is being established in Borlänge, Sweden. Enabling 100 GWh of annual cathode production powered by 100% clean energy, the plant is Northvolt’s first brownfield project and will involve retrofitting of the historic Kvarnsveden paper mill and surrounding infrastructure.
The combined manufacturing capacity outlined above is by no means insignificant – if nothing else it's sufficient to produce batteries for some 2.5 million electric vehicles. It's also Europe's first homegrown lithium-ion battery footprint, of sufficient scale to represent a sizeable contribution to the rapidly expanding global pipeline of battery manufacturing capacity.
But beneath the surface is where the real value of this capacity is. It is not in how many batteries we produce, but in how we produce them. There is a right way and a wrong way to produce batteries, and the approach dominating the industry today is not how we want to see the global industry scale.
With Northvolt having amassed an order book valued over $50 billion, much of Northvolt Ett production capacity is sold out. Cells produced at Northvolt Ett will supply several of Europe’s leading automotive customers and industrial actors, including Volkswagen, BMW, Scania, Volvo Cars and Polestar, as well as Northvolt Systems in Poland.
A second gigafactory is being developed through the Northvolt–Volvo Cars joint venture, announced in June 2021. To be established in Gothenburg, Sweden, the 50 GWh gigafactory is set enter construction in 2023, for large scale production commencing in 2026. Cell output of the gigafactory is committed to Volvo Cars and Polestar, for whom Northvolt is the exclusive battery cell production partner in Europe.
Most recently, Northvolt Drei was announced in March – a cell manufacturing gigafactory to be established in Heide, northern Germany, with annual capacity of 60 GWh and the ambition to produce cells with the lowest carbon footprint in continental Europe when it comes online in late 2025.
Northvolt Drei, like the Northvolt–Volvo Cars gigafactory, will not feature cathode production. To supply cathode to these plants, Northvolt Fem is being established in Borlänge, Sweden. Enabling 100 GWh of annual cathode production powered by 100% clean energy, the plant is Northvolt’s first brownfield project and will involve retrofitting of the historic Kvarnsveden paper mill and surrounding infrastructure.
The combined manufacturing capacity outlined above is by no means insignificant – if nothing else it's sufficient to produce batteries for some 2.5 million electric vehicles. It's also Europe's first homegrown lithium-ion battery footprint, of sufficient scale to represent a sizeable contribution to the rapidly expanding global pipeline of battery manufacturing capacity.
But beneath the surface is where the real value of this capacity is. It is not in how many batteries we produce, but in how we produce them. There is a right way and a wrong way to produce batteries, and the approach dominating the industry today is not how we want to see the global industry scale.
