Sep 14, 2026 | Battery Technology
Lithium manganese iron phosphate — LMFP — is lithium iron phosphate with manganese swapped in for some of the iron. That one substitution raises the cell’s working voltage from about 3.2 volts to roughly 3.7, and with it the energy density: manufacturers quote...
Sep 7, 2026 | Battery Technology, Policy & Regulations
On 1 September China started taxing the lithium battery. A 2% consumption tax now sits on every lithium-ion cell made or sold in the country, and it rises to 4% next September. Sodium-ion and solid-state cells pay nothing until 2029. Most of the coverage filed this...
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 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 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...
