FREYR Battery is expected to receive $850 million, enabling the company to build a giant 43 GWh battery cell production just under the Arctic Circle by 2025.
The subsidies worth billions for 42 firms in 12 EU countries are aimed at helping Europe catch up with Chinese, Korean and Japanese electric-car trendsetters.
Improving batteries has always been hampered by slow experimentation and discovery processes. Machine learning is speeding it up by orders of magnitude.