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.
A University of Maryland-led team pushed sulfur to the +1 oxidation state, lifting average voltage from 2.05 V to 2.54 V and sulfur-specific capacity by 58%. The pouch cell they actually built ran at roughly 1 mAh/cm² — and that…
On September 13, 2026, BYD executive vice president Stella Li told Carwow.es in an interview recorded in Valencia, Spain, that the BYD solid-state battery programme will reach its first vehicle next year. “Talking about solid-state battery, BYD is in the…
Lynk & Co has spent six years trying to sell cars in Europe differently: no dealerships, no showrooms, just a monthly subscription, a city-centre “club” and an app. On September 10, 2026, that experiment formally ended. Geely Auto Group and…
At its September 7 launch event, Xiaomi officially priced the Sky Nomad EREV lineup — and the flagship Xiaomi Sky Nomad N90 Max Explorer Edition arrived with the feature nobody saw coming at pre-sale: a factory-fitted electric pop-up roof that…
A team at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology has published a Japanese electrolyte additive — FPTI — that lifts 1,000-cycle capacity retention from 62.7% to 95.6% at a dose of 4 milligrams per millilitre, roughly 0.04%. The paper,…
On September 8, 2026, Madrid-based Qualitas Energy announced the Cero Generation acquisition: it is buying the core European solar and storage platform that Macquarie built — a 5.8 GW development pipeline across the continent. The Cero Generation Acquisition: What Qualitas…
Korean industrial group Hyosung Heavy Industries is taking aim at the most crowded bottleneck in American electricity — AI data-center power — with a Hyosung solid-state transformer it calls a “semiconductor transformer.” Chairman Cho Hyun-joon is fronting the push personally.…
China’s National Intellectual Property Administration (国家知识产权局, CNIPA) published a BYD compact hybrid e-drive patent on August 28, 2026 — and the core idea is one sentence: rotate the traction motor 90 degrees, and a hybrid system sized for mid-size sedans…
On September 7, 2026, ProLogium Technology — the Taiwanese solid-state battery maker backed by Mercedes-Benz — announced mass production of a high-energy-density all-solid-state cell reaching 381 Wh/kg and 903 Wh/L, per the company’s official release. It’s the milestone rivals keep…
2027 has become the year every major battery maker promises a solid-state battery. CATL, BYD, Samsung SDI, Toyota and a queue of Chinese challengers have all pointed at the same twelve-month window. But read the fine print and they are…
