There's an interesting AMA on Reddit from a Northvolt engineer: <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/sweden/comments/1g1xkmx/jag_%C3%A4r_ingenj%C3%B6r_p%C3%A5_northvolt_ama/" rel="nofollow">https://old.reddit.com/r/sweden/comments/1g1xkmx/jag_%C3%A4r...</a>
(Google translate works well on the old.reddit.com site).<p>According to this (and other) reports, they never got their high volume production yields anywhere near that of their (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) competitors, which made their end products far too expensive. Geopolitics aside, they didn't have any competitive edge, it's difficult to see where they would get it, since both their raw materials and manufacturing equipment were majorly imported from Asia.