batteries

The three-year agreement, equal to half of CATL's 2025 storage shipments, signals that sodium-ion has cleared its mass-production hurdles and is moving from pilot projects to grid-scale deployment.

At its April 21 Super Technology Day in Beijing, CATL introduced a new ultra-fast charging LFP cell that outpaces BYD's recently unveiled Blade Battery 2.0 and reshapes the fast-charging race.

Chinese battery makers are racing to add stationary-storage capacity while Beijing phases out export rebates, a shift that could tighten margins abroad and deepen domestic grid-storage demand.

A KIST-IAE team engineered a tungsten diselenide catalyst that achieved over 550 stable cycles in lithium-air batteries, outperforming conventional catalysts and advancing a technology with ten times the energy density of lithium-ion.

Peak Energy and RWE Americas have deployed the first sodium-ion battery system on the MISO grid in Wisconsin, marking a milestone for the cheaper, cobalt-free chemistry in the US.

BYD has launched its second-generation Blade Battery and a 1,500 kW FLASH Charging network that can take a compatible EV from 10 to 97 percent in nine minutes, with plans to deploy 20,000 stations across China by year-end and begin overseas rollout.

A 300 MW Form Energy iron-air battery paired with 1.6 GW of wind and solar will power Google's new Pine Island data center, marking the largest energy storage project ever announced by capacity.

CATL and BYD are mass-producing sodium-ion batteries for EVs and grid storage in 2026, driven by soaring lithium prices and abundant raw materials, while the West struggles to keep pace.

A novel covalent organic framework electrolyte solves calcium-ion transport problems that have stalled the technology for decades, opening a path to cheaper, more abundant battery chemistry.