Battery Manufacturing
Stories tagged Battery Manufacturing.
The South cancelled $4.5bn of EV plants and kept selling more EVs anyway
Five Southeastern facilities were scrapped or downsized in twelve months, costing 9,670 anticipated jobs. Regional EV sales rose 25 percent over the same period.
BYD's battery share fell while the market grew 20%. Its own factory was the bottleneck
SNE Research has CATL at 39.9% of global EV battery installations and BYD down to 14.7%. BYD's chairman has already explained why: the second-generation Blade line could not keep up.
ProLogium's solid-state cell passed the tests. Its factory makes 0.5 GWh a year
A 381 Wh/kg all-solid-state cell is now in commercial production in Taiwan, validated by TUV and UL Solutions. The output is roughly 6,000 car packs a year.
Binder placement can make or break a fast-charging anode
A KAIST digital twin shows how binder distribution can hide local lithium-plating risk even when a graphite anode delivers similar headline capacity.
Asahi Kasei found 10% more battery energy hiding in the first charge
A lithium-carbonate pre-doping method recovers capacity that silicon-rich cells normally lose on the first charge, without claiming to cure silicon swelling.
Europe's EV battery passport has 71 fields, but buyers will not see all of them
New EU guidance maps the data work behind the 2027 battery passport, and a real limit: access depends on who is asking.