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Former Tesla executives plan to build $4bn Nordic battery plant
- fosco 10y agoFYI was initially blocked , was able to view by copying link into google search and viewing the cached version.
- iso-8859-1 10y agohttp://archive.is/pqtNR http://archive.is/pqtNR
- tekkk 10y agoBehind a paywall, perfect. Yet when I searched the article from Google and went to the same page there was no paywall. And the url is the same. That's weird.
- Wheaties466 10y agoMaybe they do something with the referrer?
- Nadya 10y agoGoogle penalizes paywalls in Search Results. To get around this, if you have a referral header from Google companies often won't show the paywall for that article. This works for many, if not most, online publications.
- freyr 10y agoI followed the web link and still hit a paywall. Perfect. Edit: I went to the "Top Stories" link, which was right above the identical (and paywalled) search results link, and that got me through.
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- simonebrunozzi 10y agoIt's behind a paywall. Anybody with access who can offer a TL;DR?
- strictnein 10y agoClick "Web" link above to get access.
- nbarbettini 10y agoHere's a different article on the same topic: https://electrek.co/2017/03/07/former-tesla-executives-gigafactory-sweden/ https://electrek.co/2017/03/07/former-tesla-executives-gigaf...
- russelluresti 10y agoThe TL;DR is that the former head of supply chain of Tesla (who is Swedish) is trying to get funding to build a lithium-ion battery plant in Scandinavia. Largely because Europe doesn't have one and is reliant on Asian countries for their batteries (so he's seeking a kind of European energy independence). He believes he can use minerals from mining operations in Finland as resources and local hydro/wind sources to power it. The biggest hurdle is getting funding - it's expensive - but he does have initial phase backing from a few sources, including the state-owned utility service Vattenfall. They are mainly looking to just provide for Europe and not challenge Tesla in the American market.
- joeyspn 10y ago> The biggest hurdle is getting funding I'm pretty sure that if he asks, the EU Commission will dump on him some hundreds of millions so he can kickstart the project. Energy Storage is strategic and they're continuously looking for projects that need support... https://ec.europa.eu/energy/en/topics/technology-and-innovation/energy-storage https://ec.europa.eu/energy/en/topics/technology-and-innovat...
- tekkk 10y agoThere has been already talk in the finnish news that Vaasa is lobbying itself for the Tesla's new Gigafactory in Europe so it is going to be interesting to see how this develops. Here is an article in english about Vaasa's ambitions if anyone is curious about their rationale. https://www.vaasa.fi/en/tiedote/vaasa-finland-will-apply-for-the-european-gigafactory https://www.vaasa.fi/en/tiedote/vaasa-finland-will-apply-for...
- dougmany 10y ago>Securing raw materials could also be tricky as hedge funds have recently accumulated a big stockpile of cobalt in a bet that the scarce metal, which boosts the power of lithium-ion batteries, will increase in price. Has the bet on price increasing ensured that the price will not increase because now people are worried about the availability?
- acchow 10y agoThis definitely has an effect. Oil went through something similar.