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 | 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 2, 2026 | Cars, Electric Vehicles
Geely showed the Galaxy Cruiser 700 in China in the last week of July, and in Milan on 26 July: a boxy plug-in hybrid off-roader with 830 kW, or 1,113 horsepower, from a petrol engine and three electric motors. That power figure is real and it is remarkable for the...
Aug 2, 2026 | Hydro, Renewable Energy, Smartgrids
Global pumped storage capacity passed 201 GW in 2025, the first time it has cleared 200, on a record 11.7 GW of additions. There is 243 GW more under construction. China accounts for 218 GW of it — 90% of everything being built on the planet. North America, by...
Aug 2, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Solar
Coal supplied 49.7% of China’s electricity in the first half of 2026 — the first half-year on record below half. China’s National Energy Administration announced the figure on 30 July, alongside renewables at 41.2% and coal generation of 2.5 trillion kWh....
