India will not be able to meet its aim of becoming a global leader in battery manufacturing unless it establishes a value chain that embraces recycling.

Emad Zand, president of Northvolt Systems, on factors impacting the growth of a European battery storage industry.

Four winners have been selected to receive financial incentives from India’s government, to support plans to build 50GWh annual manufacturing capacity of advanced batteries for EVs and ESS. 

KORE Power, a company building a lithium-ion gigafactory in Arizona, has launched a full service storage integrator division with the acquisition of an existing provider.

A newly-announced battery gigafactory in the US from startup SPARKZ will make batteries suitable for grid storage and will be built in the heart of Appalachian coal county in West Virginia. 

Norwegian lithium-ion gigafactory startup FREYR Battery could easily dedicate half of its 2030 production capacity target of 100 GWh to energy storage and is also launching a system integrator play, CEO Tom Jensen tells Energy-Storage.news in an interview.

Energy-storage.news speaks with the CEO of American Battery Factory, which seeks to establish a network of LFP gigafactories.

Northvolt intends to build its third gigafactory in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

With Europe set to reach 789.2GWh of lithium-ion battery gigafactory production by 2030, what does the US need to do to keep up?

Northvolt has agreed to acquire a site in Sweden where it will develop its planned gigafactory, capable of producing 100GWh of cathode materials.