The NordBatt Conferences: The Journey so Far and the Future Ahead

Övrig text i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2023

All great things have humble beginnings. In 2013 when NordBatt started, we had no lithium-ion battery manufacturing in the Nordic countries and we had rather few EVs on the roads, although things were clearly starting to move – Tesla Model S in fact topped the monthly new car sales of Norway in September that very year. Yet, even if the field was advancing and lively, relatively few Nordic research groups were doing any kind of battery R&D. Now, in 2023, almost everything is different; batteries and “electrify everything” are seen, not only by us, as the next industrial revolution – it is a topic gathering considerably many more actors in academia as well as in the whole ecosystem of batteries.