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No, not for $2.75bn. At that cost they will be just repackaging Chinese, or Japanese materials, sans the cathode which they will be making, and which is the mo
by baybal2 5y ago
No, not for $2.75bn.
At that cost they will be just repackaging Chinese, or Japanese materials, sans the cathode which they will be making, and which is the most expensive material in the battery.
Almost every battery maker outside of China don't do even that, and they just package ready made cathode/anode/separators into casings.
- raxxorrax 5y agoEven for a business it is a decent sum. And they could grow with the market, since electric cars are still quite rare.
- ngrilly 5y agoWe raised much more in equity and debt in previous financing rounds :) And of course we produce our own cathode and anode for cylindrical and prismatic cells. And we're hiring by the way: https://northvolt.com/career/roles/ https://northvolt.com/career/roles/ Source: I work at Northvolt.
- WJW 5y agoJust so you know, the checkbox on the hiring page next to "Software & IT" is shaped unlike all the other checkboxes on the page and does not seem to work. (Clicking on the text does work, however)
- GreenBattery 5y agoHi, another Northvolter here! I've been doing some work on our corporate website (1). I'm not able to quickly reproduce the bug (tested in Chrome/Safari on a Macbook Pro), if you can give me some more info about your environment that'd be much appreciated. (1) not my primary responsibility, but you sometimes get to put on weird and unexpected hats at Northvolt!
- WJW 5y agoLinux with Firefox 89.0 64 bit. It displays correctly after the first load but after selecting and un-selecting it the border does not reappear correctly and looks like this: https://ibb.co/0JYQ3ML https://ibb.co/0JYQ3ML
- deadbunny 5y agoWorks fine for me in FF 89/Linux
- baybal2 5y agoWhat do you do in Northvolt?
- ngrilly 5y agoDirector of software for our battery systems division.
- baybal2 5y agoWill you be doing whole batteries, not only cells? I am a bit surprised to hear that a battery will have software.
- ngrilly 5y agoYes, battery cells don't have any software. But we are also designing and producing whole battery systems, and that includes creating in-house software for our battery management system, our IoT gateway and our battery fleet management platform in the cloud. We have two software engineering at Northvolt, one working on automating our gigafactories, and another working on battery systems as described above.