Hydrovolt is establishing a world-leading battery recycling hub in Norway
The Swedish battery manufacturer Northvolt and the Norwegian energy and aluminium company Hydro have partnered to establish the joint venture Hydrovolt, which is building Europe’s largest electric car battery recycling facility in Fredrikstad, Norway. The battery recycling plant is situated next to Batteriretur – the company that collects used batteries in Norway and will be providing a feed of electric vehicle batteries to Hydrovolt.
Once fully operational, Hydrovolt will have an annual recycling capacity of 12,000 tons of battery packs – more than sufficient to recycle the entire volume of end-of-life electric vehicle batteries currently present in Norway. Additional capacity will be used to recycled batteries collected from Sweden and other parts of Europe. Alongside batteries from electric vehicles, Hydrovolt will also recycle other types of batteries, including those from electric ferries and grid energy storage.