Northvolt, Europe’s first local battery factory, has started shipments

Recently, the Swedish battery manufacturer Northvolt began to ship,Became the first European company to supply power batteries to car manufacturers.

Northvolt is a star company in the European battery industry. Although established only 6 years ago, Northvolt Invested by BMW, Volkswagen, Goldman Sachs, Spotify and other companies, a private equity investment in June last year was as high as $2.75 billion. Hydrovolt, established by Northvolt and Hydro, is Europe’s largest recycling plant for electric vehicle batteries, processing around 25,000 used batteries per year.

According to data from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF),At present, the sales of new energy vehicles in Europe account for nearly 34% of the global share, making it the second largest market in the world. However, in the new energy vehicle industry chain, it has no advantage in battery supply and mineral resources. According to data from market research firm SNE Research, in the first quarter of this year, the top ten companies in the global power battery installations were all Asian companies, with an overall market share of more than 90%. Data from the U.S. Geological Survey shows that the upstream raw materials required for power batteries are mostly in Latin America, Africa and Australia.

Most of Northvolt’s customers are local European car companies. The company said,It has secured more than $50 billion in orders from automakers including BMW, Volkswagen and Volvo, and will expand production for the rest of the year.As one of Northvolt’s largest investors, Volkswagen has launched plans to build a battery factory in the country, andHope to build six large battery factories in Europe by 2030.

Previously, the European battery factory Northvolt and Pioneer Intelligence jointly established the “Intelligent Production Line Joint Innovation Center” (referred to as “Lianchuang Center”) in Wuxi, as an important innovation and debugging base for Northvolt before the production line was opened. In the future, the two parties will continue to deepen production line cooperation and technological innovation. On the basis of the first and second phases of the current cooperation in the intelligent complete line project, Pioneer Intelligence will provide Northvolt with a later intelligent complete line with higher production capacity and higher technical level. and service.