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Battery Tech
2,430 words 12 min read
The AI buildout is beginning to reshape the battery industry, and the change runs in an unexpected direction: the consumers of next-generation cells are no longer only automakers, but the operators of AI data centers. On October 8, 2026…
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Battery Tech
2,000 words 10 min read
On 6 October 2026, President Vladimir Putin joined by videoconference from Novo-Ogaryovo the opening of what Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin called the largest battery cluster in the country and one of the most advanced in the world. The…
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Battery Tech
1,770 words 9 min read
The lithium market delivered a number last month that looked impossible next to the electric vehicle headlines: battery-grade lithium carbonate futures on the Guangzhou Futures Exchange fell about 25% during September, sliding from above…
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Battery Tech
2,704 words 13 min read
For most of the last three years, the story of battery cells made in the United States has been a story of automotive ambition. Gigafactories announced at political rallies, billions in incentives, and production lines built to put…
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Battery Tech
1,659 words 8 min read
In the rarest category of industrial news — a company committing real money to a battery chemistry that does not yet exist in volume production — General Motors has moved first. Ultium Cells, the joint venture between GM and LG Energy…
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Battery Tech
1,882 words 9 min read
Japan has quietly become the world's clearest illustration of a problem that every grid operator is now confronting: what happens when the queue for new storage capacity grows an order of magnitude faster than the capacity that actually…
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Battery Tech
1,262 words 6 min read
On 22 September 2026, the South Korean Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy unveiled a "Battery Industry Technology Roadmap" at the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Seoul. Around the table sat the leadership of LG Energy…
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Battery Tech
1,440 words 7 min read
For most of the EV era, the argument about charging has been a fight over range. Now it is a fight over minutes. Chinese automakers have spent the past month pushing peak charging power past anything the industry considered commercially…
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Battery Tech
1,497 words 7 min read
On 28 September 2026, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released a battery industry development plan covering the 2026 through 2030 period — the first five-year plan cycle to set explicit national targets for…
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Battery Tech
1,837 words 9 min read
Volkswagen has spent the better part of five years trying to build a European battery industry it can call its own, and until now the results have been mixed. The Salzgitter site that was supposed to anchor that effort has slipped…
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Battery Tech
1,422 words 7 min read
CATL switched on battery cell production lines at its Debrecen plant in Hungary on 22 September 2026, the company confirmed in a statement on its corporate news site, ending a two-year wait for the most consequential piece of Europe's…
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Battery Tech
1,649 words 8 min read
A single project announced in the second half of September 2026 captures almost everything that has changed in the European battery storage market over the past eighteen months. In Bacău County, in eastern Romania, a special purpose…