Last summer, I travelled through the pine forests of northern Sweden to a place called Skellefteå 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 Skellefteå 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，我穿过瑞典北部的松林，到达了北极圈附近一个叫谢莱夫特奥(Skellefteå)的地方。我在一条繁忙公路旁一家非常普通的酒店定到了它的最后一间房，每晚房费比斯德哥尔摩市中心的好酒店还贵。酒店前台告诉我，谢莱夫特奥已经快要挤爆了：总部位于这里的电动汽车电池制造商北伏(Northvolt)几乎在一夜之间就把它从“被遗忘的地方”变成了“繁荣小镇”。
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