The CATL-backed Choco-SEB battery swap network deployed its 2,000th swapping station June 30th, wrapping up another month of incredibly rapid growth that’s seen the company average more than 200 deployments in each and every month of 2026. (!)
Robin Zeng Yuqun, the founder and chairman of CATL, the world’s largest EV battery maker, just poured cold water on the solid-state battery hype, saying the much-anticipated technology is only at “level four” of a nine-step readiness scale.
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A commercial sodium-ion battery from Chinese manufacturer Hina matches Tesla’s lithium-ion cells on manufacturing quality and internal design, according to an independent teardown published in the Cell Press journal Cell Reports Physical Science.
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CATL chairman Robin Zeng says manufacturing challenges will keep solid-state batteries out of mass-market EVs until at least 2030, with early production limited to premium vehicles.
CATL, the world’s largest battery maker, signed a 60 GWh sodium-ion battery deal with energy storage integrator HyperStrong — the largest sodium-ion battery order ever placed. The three-year agreement is equivalent to half of all energy storage batteri…
I just spent two days at the 2026 Beijing Auto Show (Auto China 2026), and I need to tell you something: the future of the auto industry is electric and Chinese. I’m not being dramatic. Just realistic.
In a single hall at the show, there were more E…
Tesla has added Sunwoda (also known as Xinwangda) as its fifth global power battery cell supplier, with LFP cells already shipping on Shanghai-built vehicles destined for export markets.
The move continues Tesla’s aggressive push to diversify its ba…
Land Rover is reviving Freelander as a standalone EV brand with six models planned. The first launch lands this year in China, signaling a fast, tech-heavy push into the premium electric market.
While Tesla struggles shake off allegations of remote operation for its robots, CATL is putting its new “Moz” humanoid robots to work — the company says it’s got the world’s first large-scale implementation of humanoid robots working at their Zhongzhou…