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...
Sep 9, 2026 | Battery Technology, Electric Vehicles
On 4 September Li Auto paid 2.65 billion yuan, about $390 million, for 8.79% of Sunwoda EVB — a board seat at China’s seventh-largest battery maker, so it can design its own cells and pay someone else to build them. It is the third premium Chinese carmaker,...
