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Northvolt and ABB have indeed enhanced their long-standing collaboration in the field of green batteries. In fact, since 2017, ABB has already delivered key electrification and automation equipment to power Northvolt Ett gigafactory for lithium-ion batteries in Sweden.

Produced with fossil-free electricity in northern Sweden, the cell’s carbon footprint is approximately one-third that of a comparative industry reference. The cell is being produced at Northvolt Ett gigafactory.

The two Scandinavian companies have the target to create sustainable batteries using lignin-based hard carbon produced with renewable wood from Nordic forests. Stora Enso is capable to produce lignin, a plant-derived polymer found in the cell walls of dry-land plants. Trees are composed of 20–30% of...

Integrated with a novel process design, Hydrovolt can recover and isolate some 95% of the materials in a battery including, plastics, copper, aluminium and black mass (a compound containing nickel, manganese, cobalt and lithium).

The plant will be able to deliver lithium hydroxide sufficient for 50 GWh of battery production per year (sufficient for more than 700,000 electric vehicles). As part of the JV agreement, Northvolt will secure an offtake for up to 50% of the plant’s capacity for use in its battery manufacturing.

Northvolt Drei - this is the name given to the project - will have annual production up to 60 GWh and will be able to deliver a supply of sustainably produced lithium-ion batteries to the European market, sufficient for some one million electric vehicles.