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...
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...
