I was recently shopping for an UPS + couple 100Ah Batteries solution and failed to find an easy way to buy something not manufactured in China. Northvolt seems to not be present in retail at all. Are there any good places I should've checked out?
In general, it seems more common in China for companies to do business with each other via e.g. Alibaba. You can actually order non trivial amounts of raw materials via Alibaba. For example if you search for 1080 steel, you can actually order tons of steel from various suppliers.
https://northvolt.com/products/
scroll down to footer PRODUCTS heading for more vague marketing splurge.
There are only a few companies that actually manufacture their cells in the USA.
But they are often assembled in USA from foreign components, so you have to dig further into what cells they’re using.
The only retail product we offer at the moment is:
https://northvolt.com/products/systems/voltpacks/mobile/
and I am not even sure you can just outright buy it or only lease it
You can't just ship by mail such big cells due to fire hazards so I don't expect you will be able to just buy one
But not really consumer products either.