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Northvolt invests $750 million to establish world’s first R&D campus covering the entire battery ecosystem

Northvolt today announced it is expanding Northvolt Labs in Västerås, Sweden, into a fully-integrated ecosystem for catalyzing technological advances in the emerging European battery industry. With the establishment of a fully integrated European battery industry comes the need to also build industry relevant research to complement the good academic research already exsisting. The new customer […]

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Daimler joins Stellantis and TotalEnergies in ACC venture to expand European battery network

Daimler announced last week that they will become an equal shareholder in Automotive Cells Company (ACC), along with Stellantis and TotalEnergies. This is another confirmation that European companies are aligning in strategic alliances along the battery value chain and that the strategic plan for Europe outlined by the European Battery Alliance is delivering. ACC was

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Right sizing the skills gap

No rest for the European battery industry over summer – welcome back to a fully charged autumn!

EBA250 welcomes you back after the summer break. While we hope you enjoyed some days off relaxing and charging your batteries, Europe continued its path towards electrification and building its own battery ecosystem. Here is a short selection of what has happened over the past few weeks with relevance to the European battery industry. Policy

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EBA250 Summer highlights

Before logging off for the summer break, we would like to come back on some recent activities and progress that took place during the first half of 2021. 2021 opened with a new milestone for the European Battery Alliance (EBA). In January, the European Commission approved indeed a €2.9 billion state aid for a second

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The role of charging infrastructure in accelerating electric heavy-vehicles

We are happy to relay that we hosted the 3rd Virtual Meetup of 2021 on July 13th, which focused on the role of charging infrastructure in accelerating electric heavy-duty vehicles. Bo Normark, from EIT InnoEnergy kickstarted the session by providing to all of our stakeholder the latest market outlook when it comes to Heavy Duty

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Thousands of workers to be upskilled in France to keep the pace with the battery revolution

EIT InnoEnergy and France Minister of Labour, Employment and Integration have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to launch the EBA Academy to reskill and upskill tens of thousands of workers for the French battery industry. As one of the leading actors under the European Battery Alliance (EBA), France – with three gigafactories in the making

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Verkor raises €100m to develop high-performance sustainable battery cells in France

Co-led by EQT Ventures and Renault Group, the fundraise allows Verkor to break ground on an advanced R&D facility and pilot line for high-performance battery cells and intelligent manufacturing – a leap forward in its roadmap to 50 GWh battery production capacity by 2030. Less than a year after its launch, the French industrial company

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