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Battery Tech
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August 27, 2026 — Tech Desk After decades of laboratory promise and cancelled deadlines, solid-state battery technology is entering real-world production in 2026, with major manufacturers racing to commercialize what could be the biggest…
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Battery Tech
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July marked a triple inflection point for the solid-state battery industry: China's first national standard for vehicle solid-state batteries (GB/T43568-2026) took effect, paired with a consumption tax exemption; multiple hundred-ton-level…
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Battery Tech
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Two solid-state EV battery leaders are joining forces to scale the breakthrough tech. SK On and Factorial Energy announced a new alliance that will focus on bringing solid-state batteries to the masses. The South Korean battery giant and…
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Battery Tech
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A British startup spun out of Imperial College has closed a £10 million Series A to push a manganese-based flow battery toward commercial deployment, betting that cheap, earth-abundant chemistry can solve the grid's hardest storage…
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Battery Tech
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Researchers at Flinders University in South Australia have built an aqueous zinc-iodine battery that holds up through more than 60,000 charge and discharge cycles while still filling in about three minutes. The result, published in the…
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Battery Tech
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A detailed technical review of CATL's TENER Sodium Energy Storage System reveals the world's first real-world validated sodium-ion solution for grid-scale applications. The June 2026 announcement from the Fujian-based manufacturer marks…
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Battery Tech
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A Brisbane startup's battery cells have landed at one of the most consequential research labs in the US military, and the delivery says as much about trade alliances as it does about chemistry. Li-S Energy Limited announced Monday that its…
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Battery Tech
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The Saudi Power Procurement Company has finalized four 15-year storage service agreements worth more than $1.16 billion, marking the first phase of a battery storage build-out that aims to reach 48 GWh by 2030. The deals, signed with…
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Battery Tech
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GM Backs Sodium-Ion Push for U.S. Grid Storage as China Leads the Chemistry Race DENVER — General Motors is betting that sodium-ion batteries will do for grid storage what lithium iron phosphate did for electric vehicles: slash costs…
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Battery Tech
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BEIJING — China's lithium-ion battery recycling sector is on track to process more than one million tonnes of retired batteries and scrap this year, nearly doubling 2024 volumes, as a wave of mandatory regulations forces the industry to…
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Battery Tech
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Anthro Energy, a California battery startup founded by Stanford researchers, has broken ground on what it calls the first large-scale, U.S.-owned plant dedicated to advanced polymer electrolytes. The Louisville, Kentucky facility aims to…
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Battery Tech
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Geely Holding says its solid-state battery cells have reached 500 Wh/kg, and the group plans to put them into pilot vehicles across its brands next year. The Chinese automaker expects cars running on the new packs to cover more than 1,000…