Sep 24, 2026 | Battery Technology, Policy & Regulations
South Korea is putting 8.4 trillion won — about $6 billion — into sodium-ion and solid-state batteries to “reclaim” a market it is losing. Read the targets against what China already ships and the plan looks less like a leap and more like a sprint to where...
Sep 21, 2026 | Battery Technology
CATL supplied 39.9% of the world’s electric-vehicle batteries in the first half of 2026 and does not build a single car. BYD supplied 14.4% and put almost all of them in its own vehicles. That one difference — merchant versus captive — decides what a battery...
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 21, 2026 | Battery Technology, Policy & Regulations
On 18 August, LG Energy Solution started production at an all-new $2 billion plant in Lansing, Michigan, rated at more than 35 GWh of cells a year. Paired with its Holland plant up the road, the company now anchors more than 50 GWh of North American lithium iron...
