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Battery Tech
1,215 words 6 min read
Battery technology is undergoing a decisive shift as solid-state designs move from lab benches to production lines while lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cells surge in market share, together reshaping the economics and safety of electric…
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Battery Tech
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LFP battery cell prices have fallen to roughly $60 per kilowatt-hour in 2026, down from about $100 just two years earlier, according to Reuters calculations based on BloombergNEF data. The drop is not a rounding error. It reshapes the…
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Battery Tech
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WeLion New Energy opened a Pre-IPO round targeting 2 billion yuan in August 2026, with a pre-money valuation of about 20 billion yuan, and QingTao Energy filed for a Hong Kong listing in April. The two are among at least three solid-state…
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Battery Tech
1,135 words 6 min read
Greater Bay Technology (GBT), a Chinese battery developer backed by the GAC Group, has reached a significant milestone in the solid-state battery industry by commencing series production of solid-state battery cells in Guangzhou. The…
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Battery Tech
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CATL built the first mass-production passenger car with sodium-ion batteries in February 2026, due on the market by mid-year. Its Naxtra cells reach 175 watt-hours per kilogram by the company's own figure, and it holds a 60 gigawatt-hour…
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Battery Tech
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Kenitra, Morocco is set to host Africa's first battery gigafactory, with Gotion Power Morocco (GPM) beginning commissioning of production equipment during the week of October 20, 2026, according to Morocco World News, citing a…
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Battery Tech
1,338 words 7 min read
A September storage tender in Renqiu, Hebei, put two battery chemistries on the same price sheet, and the result wasn't close. Sodium-ion systems drew an average bid of about $153 per kWh. Lithium iron phosphate (LFP) drew $79. The 40 MWh…
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Battery Tech
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As The Battery Show Detroit 2026 kicks off today through October 15, the battery industry is converging on a pivotal moment defined by three intersecting trends: strategic vertical integration, accelerated transparency standards, and a…
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Battery Tech
1,237 words 6 min read
A 314-amp-hour lithium iron phosphate cell, the workhorse of utility-scale storage, cost $51.62/kWh at the factory gate in China at the end of September. In July it cost $57.75. Nobody paid much attention to that gap until this quarter…
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Battery Tech
1,512 words 7 min read
The most consequential constraint on artificial intelligence in 2026 is no longer a smarter model. It is a wall socket. As hyperscalers pour more than $725 billion this year into new data centers across Microsoft, Meta and Google alone…
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Battery Tech
1,313 words 6 min read
A NIO vehicle completed a battery swap and drove away every 0.47 seconds at peak demand on October 5, according to figures the Chinese EV maker published on Friday. That single number does more work than the headline statistic around it…
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Battery Tech
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Ultium Cells will convert part of its Spring Hill, Tennessee plant to make battery cells built on a new chemistry, the company said on September 28. The cells will be lithium-manganese-rich, known as LMR, in a prismatic form, and General…