‘We have a completely wrong policy framework in Europe that doesn’t help companies like Northvolt,’ says Julia Poliscanova of advocacy group Transport & Environment General consensus is that Northvolt was ‘stretched too thin’ as they ‘were trying to do everything,’ says Shivangee Chauhan, a battery analyst at consultancy Benchmark Mineral Intelligence Geopolitical environment is very difficult at the moment, with a lot of competition, making it harder for European firms to compete with their