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...
Aug 30, 2026 | Battery Technology, Policy & Regulations
CATL now sells lithium iron phosphate battery cells from a web page. Pick a 314 Ah cell, and the price is 0.423 yuan per watt-hour — about $63 per kilowatt-hour, no distributor, a 600-cell minimum, shipped in three to five days. More than 1,800 energy-storage firms...
Aug 28, 2026 | Battery Technology, Policy & Regulations
Lyten, a Silicon Valley startup that has never shipped a battery cell at gigawatt scale, has agreed to buy Norway’s bankrupt Morrow Batteries — its sixth distressed European battery asset in fourteen months. Morrow burned through NOK 5.1 billion, roughly €468...
