Nov 2, 2026 | Battery Technology, Policy & Regulations
On 19 October the European Commission handed €3.4 billion to 77 net-zero technology projects, including roughly €895 million for a dozen factories — among them two lithium iron phosphate cell plants, in Spain and Poland, meant to claw back the cheap-battery chemistry...
Sep 18, 2026 | Electric Vehicles, Policy & Regulations
Europe’s electric-car share hit a record 30.5% in August, and the number travelled around the world in a day. It is real, and it is misleading. The figure covers one month, in sixteen hand-picked markets, compiled by an electric-vehicle industry group. The...
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 3, 2026 | Home Electrification, Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy
Norway installs roughly fourteen times more heat pumps per household than Britain does. Not because Norwegians care more about the climate, and not because Oslo writes bigger cheques. It is because in Norway a kilowatt-hour of electricity costs little more than a...
Aug 2, 2026 | Electric Vehicles, Policy & Regulations, Trucks
The European Union registered 4,991 battery-electric heavy trucks in all of 2025. China registered 231,100 new-energy heavy trucks — a category that is about 97% battery-electric, the remainder fuel cell. In the first half of 2026 China added another 126,200, up 85%...
