Swedish battery maker Northvolt has announced plans for a $5bn lithium-ion gigafactory near the Canadian city of Montreal. The Northvolt Six plant will be capable of producing 60GWh of cells…

The EU’s Innovation Fund has given a €100m grant to Norwegian battery maker Freyr for its $1.6bn Giga Arctic project in northern Norway. Giga Arctic has been under development in…

Chinese battery-maker Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) will build a €7.3bn plant in Hungary’s second city, Debrecen.