Status
Operational: Hydro bought Northvolt remaining 50% in January 2025
Process: mechanical + hydrometallurgy. Capacity: 12,000 t/yr (Legacy figure; not re-verified).
Hydrovolt JV (Volkswagen + Norsk Hydro); Fredrikstad Norway; EU Battery Regulation aligned; VW EOL battery supply; Norsk Hydro aluminum/materials expertise; hydro-powered.
Customers and offtakers: Volkswagen / Hydro (Norsk).
Plant record
Plant record
| Company | Hydro (Hydrovolt) |
| Plant | Fredrikstad Plant |
| City | Fredrikstad |
| State or province | Viken |
| Country | Norway |
| Type | Recycler |
| Process | mechanical + hydrometallurgy |
| Output stage | black mass |
| Input chemistries | NMC, LFP |
| Output products | Black mass |
| Capacity (t/yr input) | 12000 |
| Capacity basis | Legacy figure; not re-verified |
| Status | operational |
| Status note | Hydro bought Northvolt remaining 50% in January 2025; operating status after that unverified |
| Scale | commercial |
| Start year | 2021 |
| Investment (US$ billion) | 0.2 |
| Customers and offtakers | Volkswagen / Hydro (Norsk) |
| OEM partnerships | VW Group; Norsk Hydro |
| Under EU Battery Regulation | Yes |
| Geopolitical exposure | LOW |
| Record updated | 2026-10 |
Official site: hydro.com
In context
Where it fits
Listed in EV Battery Recycling Facilities. Recyclers are compared on where they stop: shredding to black mass, smelting to alloy, or refining to battery-grade salts that go back into cathode plants; only refining keeps the metal in the region. See Battery Recycling for the process and the market.
Sources
Sources and scope
- Scope
- Fredrikstad Plant (Hydro (Hydrovolt))
- Sources
- ElectronsX recycling dataset; company disclosures
- Updated
- 2026-10