The prospect for Norway’s Freyr battery could hardly be more different than the UK effort into the same lithium ion battery market led by Britishvolt, now on life support, and not expected to make it through to production under its own steam. Freyr by contrast is breaking out into the US, and has already landed key sales deals for supply of LFP battery through to 2030. Britishvolt is more focused on the NMC EV market. There are a number of European owned battery start-ups, including Spain’s Battchain, Italy’s Italvolt and Sweden’s NorthVolt – but Freyr is the first to land on US shores. The remainder of European battery factories are owned by companies from Japan, South Korea and China. This…