Northvolt goes from Europe battery promise to crisis

Re:Northvolt goes from Europe battery promise to crisis by throwaway4711 on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @03:19AM (#42243584)

NV bought manufacturing equipment for $2B from China, now left in the lurch during bring-up, supplier dragging their heels, sending 3rd rate support engineers. Of course, China doesn't want to support a competitor in Europe...

Classic rogue state hybrid warfare, just as cut cables in baltic, also by Chinese. Plausible deniability all the way.

https://www.newsweek.com/baltic-cable-sabotage-nato-1988689

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Re:Northvolt goes from Europe battery promise to crisis by csomar on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @03:33AM (#42243655)

So you made a bunch of claims and then linked an unrelated article?

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Re:Northvolt goes from Europe battery promise to crisis by blackeyeblitzar on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @03:22AM (#42243605)

This is what I’m seeing in social media elsewhere - reports of difficulty getting good support from Chinese suppliers.

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Re:Northvolt goes from Europe battery promise to crisis by MrHamburger on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @05:10AM (#42244276)

Support is expensive getting good support from China is generally not possible, because it destroys margins. That is making me very curious about aftermarket of Chinese cars, because they might be cheapish today, but incredibly expensive when you will need to fix them.

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Re:Northvolt goes from Europe battery promise to crisis by markus_zhang on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @02:09PM (#42258751)

I found a post supposedly written by a Chinese supplier of Northvolt. Not sure how true it is though so you need to find some insiders to validate the story. You will need some software to translate the picture into English/other languages.

https://imgur.com/AyQYtFj

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