Sep 9, 2026 | Battery Technology, Electric Vehicles
On 4 September Li Auto paid 2.65 billion yuan, about $390 million, for 8.79% of Sunwoda EVB — a board seat at China’s seventh-largest battery maker, so it can design its own cells and pay someone else to build them. It is the third premium Chinese carmaker,...
Sep 7, 2026 | Battery Technology, Policy & Regulations
On 1 September China started taxing the lithium battery. A 2% consumption tax now sits on every lithium-ion cell made or sold in the country, and it rises to 4% next September. Sodium-ion and solid-state cells pay nothing until 2029. Most of the coverage filed this...
Sep 7, 2026 | Battery Technology
ProLogium says it has begun mass-producing an all-solid-state battery cell that stores 381 watt-hours per kilogram — denser than any lithium-ion cell sitting in a car today, and the first solid-state cell the company has put on a production line at that figure. It is...
Sep 4, 2026 | Battery Technology, Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
India’s grid regulator has told new solar and wind farms to help hold the grid up, not just feed into it. A draft rule published on 3 September 2026 requires every renewable plant built from July 2027 to run grid-forming inverters and carry two hours of its own...
Sep 2, 2026 | Battery Technology, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
A battery rated at 100 megawatts and a battery rated at 100 megawatt-hours are not the same battery, and mixing the two up is the most common error in energy storage. Power, measured in watts — kilowatts, megawatts, gigawatts — is how fast a battery can push...
Sep 1, 2026 | Battery Technology, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids, Solar
Batteries did not unlock “anytime solar” in 2026. The Ember report that coined the phrase found that this year’s battery build could shift 34% of new daily solar generation into non-sunny hours — up from 18% last year. But that number is a...
