Swedish battery maker Northvolt is looking to make batteries that use carbon contained in wood sourced from Nordic forests to help lower environmental footprint and cost.
Northvolt and Finnish forestry company Stora Enso plan to make sustainable batteries using lignin-based hard carbon on an industrial scale, the companies said Friday.
The aim is to develop a battery with anode sourced entirely from European raw materials, they said.
Lauri Lehtonen, who is head of innovation at Stora Enso's biomaterials division, explained the process to Automotive News Europe earlier this year and outlined the potential benefits for automakers.