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Business 28 min

Why Beautiful Factories Fail

A $5 billion factory that couldn't produce 1% of what it promised.

Northvolt did the photogenic part of battery manufacturing brilliantly. Then it hit the part of the curve where every gigafactory in history has either learned to grind or died, and chose to scale instead.

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