Aug 12, 2026 | Battery Technology
Solid-state batteries are not arriving in 2027. What arrives in 2027, if the schedules hold, is a trial production line — a few thousand cells built to prove the process works, not a battery you can buy in a car. CATL and BYD, which between them make most of the...
Aug 7, 2026 | Battery Technology, Charging & Infrastructure
A battery’s C-rate is how fast it charges or discharges relative to its own capacity: at 1C it fills in an hour, at 4C in fifteen minutes, at 10C in six. That last figure is not hypothetical. In March 2025 BYD’s Super e-Platform hit 10C — 1,000 kW, 1,000...
Aug 2, 2026 | Battery Technology, Charging & Infrastructure
A Lucid Gravity GT was measured on a 500 kW Tesla V4 Supercharger in January 2026. It touched 419 kW — briefly, between 3% and 5% state of charge. It averaged 223 kW across the useful 10–80% window, and 107 kW across a full charge to 100%. The number on the sign was...
Aug 1, 2026 | Cars, Electric Vehicles
BYD’s Denza Z made its global debut at Goodwood on 9 July, four days before it went on pre-sale in China. The Coupe costs ¥680,000 at home and £142,900 in Britain — about $100,800 against $189,800 at the end of July, an 88% premium. That gap is the most...
Jul 31, 2026 | Cars, Electric Vehicles
A kei car — from kei jidōsha, “light vehicle” — is a uniquely Japanese class of tiny car defined by law rather than by taste: to qualify it must stay within 3,400 mm long, 1,480 mm wide and 2,000 mm tall, and in return it attracts lower tax, cheaper...
