The International Energy Agency put a number on industrial heat that deserves more attention than it got: thermal energy storage built from sand, cement or bricks costs about USD 15–20 per kWh and stores heat up to 1,000 °C, with no…
BYD’s first published intellectual property filing on its humanoid robot is not an actuator patent, a reducer patent or a control patent. It is a humanoid robot patent of the appearance kind: a Chinese design registration, CN310247768S, granted on 6…
In two investor relations records published last month, BYD told analysts that BYD energy storage is now the group’s strategic centre of gravity rather than a side business hanging off the car division. The claim rests on a genuine statistic:…
BMW has done something unusual with the iX3 battery: it split one car’s cells three ways by trim level, and handed the hardest version to its second supplier. In China the entry 30L runs a prismatic LFP pack from CATL,…
Suzuki announced on 6 October that the Suzuki e-Sky, its first passenger electric kei car, goes on sale in Japan on 16 November from ¥2,120,000 including tax — a figure the company and most of the coverage are calling the…
Construction has started on the three utility-scale Saudi battery storage sites that Gotion High-Tech will supply, the company said on 5 October. The sites — Al-Muwaih and Haden in Makkah province and Al-Kahafa in Hail — are each 500 MW…
On 1 October, a team at the Institute of Metal Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences published a cobalt-free cathode in Nature Synthesis: a nickel-rich layered oxide carrying about 1% each of magnesium, calcium, titanium and zirconium instead of…
India’s Union Cabinet approved a Rs 1,86,405 crore (about US$19.3 billion) transmission and storage programme on 30 September, and the storage line inside it is the part that matters: Rs 50,000 crore — roughly US$5.2 billion — for 50 GWh…
Coating electrodes and then drying the solvent back out of them accounts for more than 30% of the energy a lithium-ion plant consumes. Three competing process routes now exist to delete that step, and on 1 October an Indiana company…
The world’s largest battery maker has spent the past year arguing that energy storage reliability is a system problem rather than a cell problem. At its own open-house event in Ningde and Xiamen on 20 and 21 September, CATL disclosed…
