FREYR Battery Wins €100 Million Innovation Award

FREYR Battery is a Norway-based battery firm aiming to construct a battery cell gigafactory within the northerly, renewably powered, EV-loving nation. The excellent news for the corporate is that it has simply obtained a €100 million grant from the European Union Innovation Fund to assist construct “Giga Arctic.” (Do I feel it’s humorous that FREYR Battery has adopted Tesla’s manufacturing facility naming protocol? I do. Intelligent? Sure.)

I interviewed FREYR CEO and cofounder Tom Jensen earlier this 12 months to speak concerning the firm’s plans in addition to the battery market total. It’s a captivating dialogue that I like to recommend listening to:

It’s also possible to learn a abstract and a few highlights from that 40-minute interview right here. We additionally reported on the corporate’s first vital order or offtake settlement on the finish of 2021. FREYR Battery additionally plans to provoke battery cell manufacturing in america and Finland (and possibly different locations not but introduced).

Development on Giga Arctic simply started final month. It’s utilizing the 24M Applied sciences SemiSolid^TM manufacturing platform, and it will be 100% powered by hydroelectricity (the foremost supply of electrical energy in Norway). “Based on a report not too long ago revealed by Minviro, a life cycle evaluation firm and impartial third-party commissioned by FREYR, the annual manufacturing on the deliberate Giga Arctic facility in Norway might allow FREYR’s clients to mitigate 80 million tons of CO2 emissions over the batteries’ lifetime when used for renewable Vitality Storage Methods (ESS). The projected emissions mitigation corresponds to nearly twice the full quantity of CO2 emitted in Norway yearly,” the corporate writes.

“We’re delighted with the information we have now obtained from the EU’s Innovation Fund to help FREYR’s Giga Arctic mission,” famous CEO Tom Jensen. “This grant is a recognition that batteries signify the important thing catalyst of the vitality transition supporting regional vitality safety via sooner deployment of renewable vitality. Furthermore, this vital monetary dedication gives well timed help to continued improvement of the Giga Arctic mission, which is meant to deliver clear battery merchandise to our clients and companions throughout Europe. We sit up for working with the EUIF in addition to the Norwegian Authorities to unlock additional momentum for subsequent technology battery manufacturing capability at GWh scale in Norway.”

The extra gigafactories, the merrier.

Featured picture from FREYR Battery.

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