Sweden: Skelleftea, the small town in Lapland that has become the capital of electric batteries
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View of Skelleftea, Lapland.
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By: Frédéric Faux
4 min
Since the discovery of abundant amounts of gold in Lapland a century ago, not much had happened.
But that was without counting the decision by Northvolt to build a giant battery factory in the small town of Skelleftea, for the electric car market, with over 3,000 employees in the long term.
Since then, the city has become a tower of Babel, and everything has changed in scale.
Sweden
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