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Battery Tech
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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…
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Battery Tech
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Mercedes-Benz and ProLogium have signed a joint testing agreement that gives the automaker priority access to the battery maker's latest Gen4 cells. The September 24 announcement puts the new work at the front door of Mercedes' vehicle…
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Battery Tech
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The global electric mobility and energy storage sectors have entered a decisive inflection point in September 2026. For more than a decade, the promise of all-solid-state lithium batteries remained primarily confined to academic…
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Battery Tech
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The electric vehicle (EV) industry has long wrestled with a fundamental trilemma: how to scale driving range, lower production costs, and decouple manufacturing supply chains from politically sensitive mineral dependencies like lithium…
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Battery Tech
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For more than three decades, lithium-ion chemistries have been the default assumption whenever engineers or policymakers talk about high-capacity, long-life batteries. The chemistry has achieved an uncanny balance: enough energy density to…
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Battery Tech
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CHIBA, Japan — Panasonic Energy said on September 9 that it built a solid-state battery cell capable of operating at temperatures as high as 150 degrees Celsius, a jump from the roughly 60-degree limit that has held most sulfide- and…
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Battery Tech
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ProLogium Technology confirmed on September 5, 2026, that its Gen 3.5 Lithium Ceramic Battery has entered mass production at its Giga-level plant in Taiwan. The 185.4 Ah cell now ships from an automotive-grade line, ending what had been a…
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Battery Tech
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Global EV Battery Market Share Shifts as CATL Nears 40% and Chinese Manufacturers Dominate Top 10 Solid-State Battery Commercialization Advances on Multiple Fronts Solid-state battery technology crossed a critical threshold in August 2026…
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Battery Tech
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A Finnish-Estonian startup's contested solid-state battery claim just cleared a major credibility hurdle. Donut Lab published independent test results showing its battery achieved 409 Wh/kg energy density, settling months of skepticism but…
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Battery Tech
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India's Central Electricity Authority has proposed making battery storage mandatory for all new ground-mounted solar and onshore wind projects, a draft regulation that could reshape the country's renewable energy build-out and address…
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Battery Tech
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The United States installed 20.2 gigawatt-hours of new battery storage between April and June this year, the largest quarterly figure the industry has ever recorded, according to a market outlook published this month by the Solar Energy…
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Battery Tech
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Hyundai Motor Company has put a hard number on the priciest part of an electric vehicle: 30 percent. At its 2026 CEO Investor Day, the automaker said it will introduce mid-nickel NCM battery cells in 2027 that should cut battery cost by…