Oct 4, 2026 | Battery Technology
Almost every lithium battery takes one of three shapes: a cylindrical metal tube, a flat laminated pouch, or a rigid rectangular can called a prismatic cell. The choice is not cosmetic. It decides how tightly the cells pack into a battery, how they are cooled, how...
Oct 1, 2026 | Battery Technology, Charging & Infrastructure, Electric Vehicles
Geely is buying 30% of Nio’s battery-swapping arm at a valuation of about 16 billion yuan ($2.2 billion), and the market is reading it as the moment car battery-swapping finally cleared the problem that has always defined it: nobody else’s cars can use the...
Sep 29, 2026 | Battery Technology, Electric Vehicles, Policy & Regulations
China launched more than 600 new vehicle models in the first half of 2026 — close to four a day — and the man whose company builds the batteries in a third of them thinks that is the problem. At the World Power Battery Conference in Yibin in early September, CATL...
Sep 24, 2026 | Battery Technology, Policy & Regulations
South Korea is putting 8.4 trillion won — about $6 billion — into sodium-ion and solid-state batteries to “reclaim” a market it is losing. Read the targets against what China already ships and the plan looks less like a leap and more like a sprint to where...
Sep 21, 2026 | Battery Technology
CATL supplied 39.9% of the world’s electric-vehicle batteries in the first half of 2026 and does not build a single car. BYD supplied 14.4% and put almost all of them in its own vehicles. That one difference — merchant versus captive — decides what a battery...
