Built by Northvolt, the giga-factory is located 800 kilometers north of the capital, in Skelleftea, a former mining town of 70,000 inhabitants.

It is the first electric battery cell. Dependent on batteries built in Asia, this factory is the first factory of this nature created by a European group, on European soil, when entering into activity. The Swedish group will produce enough to equip 300,000 electric vehicles with batteries each year and in 2023 its production capacity will have increased to reach the possibility of equipping one million vehicles each year, thus making Northvolt the largest battery factory in Europe. , whose list of customers will include Volkswagen, BMW, Scandia and Volvo, among its shareholders. 2,900 people work on the site, including 500 Northvolt employees.