Aug 29, 2026 | Battery Technology, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
Grid-scale batteries reached about 184 gigawatts of installed power worldwide by the end of July 2026, according to Rho Motion’s monthly deployment database — within a decade’s-worth of catch-up of pumped hydro, the water battery that took a century to...
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 22, 2026 | Hydro, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
Batteries get every storage headline. Pumped hydro does the work. The world crossed 201 gigawatts of pumped storage in 2025, and by the IEA’s reckoning it holds almost all of the roughly 12 terawatt-hours of electricity the planet can store — a share...
Aug 14, 2026 | Battery Technology, Cars, Electric Vehicles
BYD opened pre-orders for the Sealion 08 on 13 August, and the two numbers doing the rounds are 900 km of range and a charge from 10% to 97% in nine minutes. Both are real claims from BYD. Both mean something different from what they sound like. The car itself is...
Aug 14, 2026 | Cars, Electric Vehicles, Policy & Regulations
Americans cannot buy a Chinese electric car. Waymo has imported more than 3,200 of them. Alphabet’s robotaxi arm has brought over 3,200 Zeekr CM1e vehicles through the Port of Los Angeles, more than 2,600 of them this year, at a tariff rate that roughly doubles...
