When former Tesla manager Peter Carlsson said he wanted to build at €3bn battery farm in northern Sweden, many thought he was crazy. But this week his almost three-year-old startup Northvolt closed a new financing round led by Volkswagen and Goldman Sachs in a massive equity round of $1bn (approximately €900m).
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