But Skellefteå, the city Gorelczenko moved from the US for and where 500 employees work at the factory, gets most of the PR. Traditionally a mining town, the Arctic Circle is barely 200km away.

Northvolt is by no means the largest employer in town. That crown still goes to Boliden Mining, w...

“The biggest surprise to me is the amount of people I see jogging or walking or going to the store by walking, even when it’s cold. It doesn’t change from summer to winter,” he says. “You have people who are eighty years old still out doing their normal walk.”

He’s one of dozens of key emp...

Apart from the 38-person recruitment team at Northvolt scanning the world for talent, the company also benefits from the networks of its employees. Hence a mini-Tesla alumni network of about 40 people that has emerged.

“... Northvolt has to be that same piece of doing something new from scr...