Last summer, I travelled through the pine forests of northern Sweden to a place called Skellefte? on the fringe of the Arctic Circle. I had managed to book the last room available in a pretty basic hotel next to a busy road, which cost more per night than a nice hotel in central Stockholm. The man on reception told me Skellefte? was bursting at the seams: Northvolt, the electric vehicle battery-maker, had transformed it from “left behind” to “boom town” practically overnight.
去年夏天，我穿過瑞典北部的松林，到達了北極圈附近一個叫謝萊夫特奧(Skellefte?)的地方。我在一條繁忙公路旁一家非常普通的酒店定到了它的最后一間房，每晚房費比斯德哥爾摩市中心的好酒店還貴。酒店前臺告訴我，謝萊夫特奧已經快要擠爆了：總部位于這里的電動汽車電池制造商北伏(Northvolt)幾乎在一夜之間就把它從“被遺忘的地方”變成了“繁榮小鎮”。
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