Nov 3, 2026 | Battery Technology
A 100 kWh battery pack rolled off a line in Changzhou on 26 October that recharges 500 km of range in twelve minutes — and it is neither a conventional lithium-ion cell nor the solid-state battery the industry keeps promising. It is semi-solid-state, the hybrid...
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...
Oct 21, 2026 | Cars, Electric Vehicles
BYD’s new Da Han flagship, launched on 13 October, pairs a 1,008 km range claim with a 10-to-97% charge in nine minutes. The battery behind both numbers is a modest 102.3 kWh — the same pack BYD drops into cars that travel a third less far. The range is not...
Oct 4, 2026 | Battery Technology
Almost every lithium battery takes one of three shapes: a cylindrical metal tube, a flat laminated pouch, or a rigid rectangular can called a prismatic cell. The choice is not cosmetic. It decides how tightly the cells pack into a battery, how they are cooled, how...
Sep 29, 2026 | Battery Technology, Electric Vehicles, Policy & Regulations
China launched more than 600 new vehicle models in the first half of 2026 — close to four a day — and the man whose company builds the batteries in a third of them thinks that is the problem. At the World Power Battery Conference in Yibin in early September, CATL...
