FREYR Battery has hired three senior sales professionals to its Energy Storage System (“ESS”) sales team. Zukui Hu, Valentin Rota and Guillaume Mancini join FREYR from Tesla, where they contributed to the success and growth of the EMEA regional energy storage division over the last six years. At FREYR, they will be responsible for sales in the company’s ESS market segment. Zukui Hu joins FREYR as Vice President Sales, ESS. At Tesla, Mr. Hu most recently led the EMEA Energy Storage sales unit for grid scale, commercial, industrial, and microgrid applications. He has 13 years of project development and finance experience within the renewable energy industry, including solar, electric vehicle charging infrastructure, and stationary storage from companies such as Tesla, Scatec Solar, and Engie. Valentin Rota joins FREYR as Sales and Business Development Director, ESS. Mr. Rota brings 10 years of business development and sales experience in the renewable energy sector, having worked extensively with battery energy storage systems (BESS), wind power, and solar power at Tesla and at Siemens. Guillaume Mancini joins FREYR as Application Engineering Director, ESS. He brings eight years of experience in engineering of energy storage systems, having worked across research, technical sales, design, construction, and operations of battery energy storage systems throughout the EMEA region at Tesla and at EDF.
FREYR Battery, Inc. is a developer of clean, battery cell production capacity. The Company seeks to serve its primary markets of energy storage systems (ESS) and commercial mobility, including marine applications and commercial vehicles. Its facilities are located at Mo i Rana industrial complex in Northern Norway. It is engaged in the development of its first clean battery cell manufacturing project in the United States (Giga America), which is located on a 368-acre parcel of land in Coweta County, Georgia. The Company's products consist of ESS, eMobility, and Electric Vehicle (EV). Its industrialized 24M semi solid technology, allows the Company to offer cell for ESS applications while surpassing or matching industry standard in cycle life, DoD, RTE, and LCOS.