Truckmaker Scania to invest in battery assembly plant
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Swedish truckmaker Scania plans to invest higher than 1 billion Swedish crowns ($116 million) over a variety of years in a battery assembly plant in Sodertalje, shut to Stockholm, it talked about in a press launch on Tuesday.
The agency, owned by Germany’s Traton, talked about the preliminary step will seemingly be an 18,000-square metre facility with constructing to start in early 2021. The objective is for the ability to be completely operational by 2023.
“This is a tangible manifestation of our willpower to take a primary place in heavy car electrification,” Ruthger de Vries, Scania’s Head of Production and Logistics, talked about in a press launch.
Scania talked about the plant, which can seemingly be constructed adjoining to its chassis assembly plant in Sodertalje, will assemble battery modules and packs from cells which can seemingly be delivered from Swedish lithium-ion battery maker Northvolt’s manufacturing unit in Skelleftea, Sweden.
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