Scientific-Technological Marketing & Business Development | Battery Tech Enthusiast | B2B Marketing Expert | Consultant | Former Scientist, PhD, Postdoc
Portugal’s Lifthium Energy won a €180 million EU grant to build a 50 kt/year lithium hydroxide refinery in Estarreja for EV batteries by 2030.
Chery’s Exeed will launch the 2026 Liefeng shooting brake with a 600 Wh/kg solid-state battery, 1,500 km cold-range, 800 V electrical system and 30,000 rpm motor.
UNIGRID has launched commercial exports of sodium-ion cells via a fab-less model and UN38.3 certification to serve global energy markets.
Dongfeng initiates extreme cold trials of 350 Wh/kg solid-state battery prototypes in Mohe, testing performance, safety, and over 1,000 km range.
China’s MIIT unveils 2026 NEV plan to boost solid-state battery output and Level 3 autonomous driving with incentives and cooperation.
Svolt unveiled its 80 kWh PHEV Fortress 2.0 pack with fast 6C charging and semi-solid cell advances, targeting 2026 profit and 61 GWh volume.
CATL’s NING SERVICE Center in Riyadh, the Middle East’s largest new energy aftermarket facility, delivers diagnostics, maintenance and battery support.
ProLogium and FEV Group will unveil a next-gen inorganic solid-state EV battery at CES 2026 with 1,000 km range, rapid charging, and enhanced safety.
China's first gigawatt-hour vanadium flow battery has 200 MW/1 GWh storage co-located with a 1 GW solar plant, boosting grid stability and renewables.
CATL will deploy sodium-ion batteries at scale in 2026 across swap, EV, and storage markets with Naxtra cells meeting China’s new safety standard.
China’s standards committee issues its first solid-state EV battery standard, defining terms, classifications and weight-loss criteria.
CATL's Zhongzhou facility uses 'Moz' AI robots for DCR and EOL battery pack testing, achieving over 99% connection success and tripling human throughput.
Welion New Energy achieved 824 Wh/kg and aims for 1,000 Wh/kg while tackling sulfide electrolyte costs to enable early robot and EV applications.
Solidion Technology’s silicon-rich anode boosts Li-ion range by up to 45% and cuts costs via silane-free manufacturing, as Dayton output scales up.
BMW and Encory's Cell Recycling Competence Center directly recycles battery cells, returning recovered active materials to BMW's cell production.