Tesla’s former chief of logistics, Swedish, Peter Carlsson, working for Sweden to have a battery factory like Tesla’s Gigafactory. There, he announced for the first time publicly on Wednesday.
After four years left Peter Carlsson last year, the record that Tesla’s purchasing manager. He had served on the management team together with the legendary Elon Musk.
– After 4.5 years with Elon, I felt a need to control my own time, ” he says.
Now, he is ceo and co-owner of the newly started Swedish company SGF Energy. During a seminar in Stockholm, he presented on Wednesday its new project: To bring about a large Swedish plant to supply Europe with batteries.
In Nevada in the united states-based Tesla together with Panasonic, a battery factory which, when completed in 2020, is expected to become the world’s largest factory to the surface. Then the factory every year to produce lithium-ion batteries with a total capacity of 35 GWh. It is more than what the world’s all battery producers got in 2013.
– If the entire automotive industry to switch to electricity need huge amount of batteries. Then needed 100 to 150 Gigafabriker, there is a huge conversion. And, in Europe, happens in almost nothing. Almost all the bets on the battery production is in Asia, ” says Peter Carlsson.
a few years ago cut off China’s supplies of rare metals to the rest of the world.
– The German automotive industry is extremely uncomfortable to ask about their portfolio so that you become dependent on Asia, says Peter Carlsson.
at the same time electrified, more and more products. Buses, drones and scooters with electric drive are increasingly common. Even boats and aircraft that runs on electricity have appeared.
Peter Carlsson’s plans for a large-scale battery factory in Sweden are still at an early stage. A feasibility study has been produced with the support of Vinnova and the Swedish energy agency.
” We think the conditions for a factory in Sweden and want to pursue it further. But there are many pieces that must fall into place, ” he says.
the Idea is that the factory would become as big as Tesla’s Gigafactory, produce batteries with a total capacity of 35 GWh each year. The batteries would go to both electric vehicles and energy storage in the grid. Was the plant would be built is not clear.
Sweden has a unique potential to build a Gigafabrik, according to Peter Carlsson, inter alia, on the basis of access to electricity. Battery production is both energy – and power consuming, and a Gigafabrik of 35 GWh is estimated to have a connection of 300 MW.
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Also available in metals speak for Sweden’s part, he considers.
– the Ability to use Swedish and scandinavian mining and creating supply chains for raw materials is quite unique. There is lithium, and nickel in Finland and one of the world’s largest concentrator of cobalt is outside the Kokkola smelter in Finland. Graphite, nickel and manganese are in Sweden, ” he says.
another advantage for Sweden is the availability of renewable energy.
– From the energy point of view, it is only in Sweden, Norway and Iceland that you can claim that you produce a completely green battery, ” says Peter Carlsson.
But there are several challenges to build a Swedish jättefabrik for battery production. The largest is spelled money. 40 billion is estimated the factory cost.
It would also be necessary in addition to skills. Peter Carlsson sees before him a large number of international experts would need to be included from Asia and the united states.
Peter Carlsson company SGF Energy is now considering to move on to the next phase, which is about to establish a project office to shake up the financing for the construction. The initial phase would cost approximately sek 85 million.
– Of the meetings we have had so far, I think that there is great interest, ” he says.
Battery technology
There are two types of lithium-ion batteries which Peter Carlsson sees as the most interesting for a future Swedish Gigafabrik: the NCA and the NMC.
the NCA contains in addition lithium, cobalt and nickel and some aluminum. The battery type has high energy density and is the kind that Tesla will manufacture in its Gigafactory.
NMC contains a certain part of the manganese and has a faster charge cycle than the NCA, which means that the NMC is loading up and loading out faster.
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