Aug 23, 2026 | Battery Technology, Electric Vehicles
BYD is handing a competitor its best battery. On 20 August, FAW’s Hongqi became the first outside brand confirmed to get BYD’s second-generation Blade battery and its Flash Charging system — the two technologies BYD had, until now, kept for its own cars....
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 12, 2026 | Electric Vehicles, Motorcycles
Battery swapping works. It just works for scooters, not cars. Gogoro swaps a 9 kg, 1.7 kWh scooter battery by hand in under six seconds and has done it more than 650 million times across Asia; a car pack holds forty times the energy and weighs half a tonne. That gap —...
Aug 12, 2026 | Battery Technology
America is getting its first sodium-ion battery factory — for the second time. Peak Energy is building a $71 million plant near Sacramento to make 4 GWh of sodium-ion grid batteries a year, a twentieth of the budget of the $1.4 billion Natron Energy gigafactory that...
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...
