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Battery Tech
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BEIJING, Aug. 5, 2026 — China has formally placed battery energy storage at the core of its renewable energy strategy for the next five years, signaling a structural shift in how the world's largest electricity market plans to balance a…
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Battery Tech
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China spent a decade building the world's largest electric vehicle market. Now it's dealing with the messy part: the batteries are starting to come back. Annual sales of battery-powered vehicles in China, including fully electric cars and…
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Battery Tech
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China's electric vehicle industry crossed a historic threshold on July 1 when two mandatory national standards took effect, establishing the world's first "no fire, no explosion" requirement for EV batteries after thermal runaway. The…
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Battery Tech
1,323 words 7 min read
South Korea's SK On and US-based Factorial Energy signed a memorandum of understanding on July 29 to find out whether solid-state batteries can be built on assembly lines that already make lithium-ion cells. The two companies will spend…
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Battery Tech
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The African Development Bank has approved a €100 million ($114 million) loan to Gotion Power Morocco to build what it calls Africa's first integrated lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery gigafactory, marking a major milestone for battery…
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Battery Tech
1,240 words 6 min read
Global battery energy storage capacity is on track to surge nearly sixfold by 2030, jumping from 224.8 gigawatts (GW) at the end of 2025 to roughly 1,300 GW, according to a fresh report from London-based research firm GlobalData. The…
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Battery Tech
1,336 words 7 min read
Sodium-ion batteries have been making headlines for years as a cheaper, safer alternative to lithium-ion. But until this month, most of those stories were about lab breakthroughs and pilot projects. That changed in July 2026: two companies…
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Battery Tech
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China's battery maker CATL reported a better-than-expected first-half net profit of 43.28 billion yuan ($6.38 billion), up 42% from a year earlier, as its energy storage business nearly doubled in revenue and electric-vehicle battery…
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Battery Tech
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Malaysia Fires Up Asean's First Homegrown EV Battery Line in Sepang — Graphene Chemistry Could Triple Range A small factory in Suria Industrial Park, Sepang, fired up production this month of what its maker calls Asean's first homegrown…
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Battery Tech
1,310 words 6 min read
The lithium-ion battery built the modern world, but it no longer owns the future alone. After three decades of near-total dominance, the battery industry is splitting into specialized chemistries — cheap sodium-ion for the grid and budget…
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Battery Tech
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A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials has solved a puzzle that's been holding back the next generation of batteries for years. In a study published in Nature, they showed exactly how soft lithium…
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Battery Tech
1,212 words 6 min read
A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials has solved a puzzle that's been holding back the next generation of batteries for years. In a study published in Nature, they showed exactly how soft lithium…