Real-time reporting on the electrification revolution — covering new EVs, batteries and storage, charging infrastructure, clean power and humanoid robots. Built on first-hand English sources, not translation.
Seven Chinese ministries published the country’s battery industry five-year plan on 28 September, and it is the first national plan written specifically for batteries rather than for vehicles or energy. Its targets are engineering numbers with dates attached: all-solid-state cells…
Hithium’s Shandong base has shipped its first export cargo: 106 prefabricated long-duration energy storage containers, each rated at 6.25 MWh and built around a 1175 Ah cell, leaving Heze for Qingdao Port and onward to Israel. It is the first…
Two announcements five days apart show grid-scale battery storage pulling in opposite directions. In New South Wales, Akaysha Energy’s Waratah Super Battery entered final commercial operations at 850 MW and 1,680 MWh — the largest battery in Australia and, on…
Europe’s car market grew in the first eight months of 2026. Almost none of that growth came from Europe. Of roughly 500,000 additional Europe new car registrations between January and August, 419,000 came from Chinese automakers — 84% of the…
On September 28 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Geely Holding and NIO settled a charging and swapping partnership the way infrastructure deals increasingly get settled: with cross-shareholdings rather than a memorandum. Geely Holding takes 30% of NIO Power, handing over its commercial-vehicle…
The humanoid robot battery has quietly become solid-state’s first paying customer. Xpeng’s second-generation IRON went on stage in November 2025 as the first humanoid to run on an all-solid-state pack, and small-batch trial production started in Guangzhou in July. GAC’s…
On September 24, Mercedes-Benz AG and ProLogium Holding signed a joint testing agreement giving the German carmaker priority access to ProLogium’s Gen 4 cells — the latest move in a Mercedes solid-state battery programme that is now running on two…
Image: Geely Auto Group official imagery. On September 23 in Ningbo, Geely introduced Geely Smart Charging and led with the number every outlet repeated: a fifth-generation station rated at up to 2,250 kW. The claim underneath it is the one…
The Denza Z9S price list landed at $35,300 to $44,900 when the sedan went on sale on September 23 — between $8,800 and $10,200 below the numbers BYD’s premium brand published for itself six weeks earlier in its August pre-sale.…
Nvidia published its first qualified list for AI data center battery storage on September 21 — three systems, from Hitachi Energy, LG Energy Solution and Tesla. The list matters less for who is on it than for what it asks:…
