Skellefteå, Sweden. Closing night time, the commissioning of the Northvolt Ett gigafactory in northern Sweden resulted in the meeting of the necessary battery cell.

Marking a brand novel chapter in European industrial history, the cell is the essential to have been fully designed, developed and assembled at a gigafactory by a homegrown European battery company.

The essential cell of Northvolt Ett represents a milestone which Northvolt has been practising since the gigafactory used to be supplied in 2017. The cell is of a prismatic cell structure and came off the cell meeting line on the 28th of December. Commissioning and upscaling of the factory will continue through into 2022, when the necessary commercial buyer deliveries shall be made.

Peter Carlsson, CEO and Co-Founder of Northvolt, acknowledged: “On the present time is a immense milestone for Northvolt which the team has worked very tough to create. For sure, this predominant cell is handiest the foundation. Over the course of the impending years, we sit down up for Northvolt Ett increasing its manufacturing skill vastly to enable the European transition to clear vitality.”

The battery cell used to be developed at Northvolt Labs, Northvolt’s industrialization factory in Västerås, Sweden, which has been in manufacturing since early 2020. Within the impending years, manufacturing skill at Northvolt Ett will lengthen in direction of 60 GWh per three hundred and sixty five days to fulfill over $30 billion worth of contracts Northvolt has secured from key customers, along with BMW, Fluence, Scania, Volkswagen, Volvo Autos and Polestar. To these customers within the automobile, industrial and vitality storage sectors, Northvolt Ett will recount cells of varying formats with commercial deliveries foundation in 2022.

At note, Northvolt Ett in Skellefteå employs over 500 folk, representing 56 nationalities.