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 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...
Sep 7, 2026 | Battery Technology
ProLogium says it has begun mass-producing an all-solid-state battery cell that stores 381 watt-hours per kilogram — denser than any lithium-ion cell sitting in a car today, and the first solid-state cell the company has put on a production line at that figure. It is...
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...
