Volkswagen’s truckmaker Scania said on Friday it had agreed to buy bankrupt Northvolt’s division that makes battery packs for heavy industry, reviving a transaction first presented in February, for an undisclosed price.

Sweden’s Northvolt filed for bankruptcy last month in one of the country’s largest corporate failures, bringing to an end Europe’s best hope of developing a rival to Asian electric vehicle battery makers.

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    8 hours ago

    That’s the thing most (left) liberals do not realize. If a company leaves a country the means of production are obviously still there. Just put it in the workers hands.

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    5 days ago

    Good that those EU subsidies which were allocated to Northvolt remain in Europe, as will their tech.

    Iirc, CATL held some shares, I wonder if VW/ Scania bought that as well.

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      Crap didn’t know Northvolt also did their garbage over there. Don’t know if someone is buying the Canadian branch

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        You mean you didn’t know Northvolt was Swedish? What did the Canadian subsidiary do exactly? I mean there have been strange coincidences or sabotages in both afaik…