Northvolt announced that the commissioning of the Northvolt Ett gigafactory in Skellefteå, northern Sweden led to the assembly of the very first battery cell on December 28, 2021. Not bad, considering that the start-up was launched in 2017.
The company was previously producing batteries at a small scale (since 2020) only at its Northvolt Labs site in Västerås, Sweden.
The first cell happens to be a prismatic cell format, while the battery chemistry has not been disclosed (it might be nickel-manganese-cobalt aka NMC). In the coming months, the Northvolt Ett probably will start series production, as commercial deliveries are expected to start in 2022.
The company underlines the importance of in-house battery cell production for the European market:
"Marking a new chapter in European industrial history, the cell is the first to have been fully designed, developed and assembled at a gigafactory by a homegrown European battery company."
"The first cell of Northvolt Ett represents a milestone which Northvolt has been working towards since the gigafactory was announced in 2017. The cell is of a prismatic cell format and came off the cell assembly line on the 28th of December. Commissioning and upscaling of the factory will continue through into 2022, when the first commercial customer deliveries will be made."
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