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 days ago

    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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      8 days ago

      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…