Huawei’s car unit joins CATL’s 2,520-station battery swap network
Huawei’s car unit joins CATL’s 2,520-station battery swap network

Huawei’s smart car business is signing on to CATL’s battery swap network, giving the world’s largest battery maker another heavyweight partner for a technology most of the industry wrote off a decade ago.

Yinwang, the Huawei-controlled automotive un…

Swaptopus inches towards reality as CATL reveals new semi truck battery
Swaptopus inches towards reality as CATL reveals new semi truck battery

In a move that challenges Orange Juicer and Buick Electra for the highly coveted Best Name in the EV Business title, a new venture between CATL and Octopus Energy called “Swaptopus” has been formed to build out a European battery swap network for comme…

Geely TT launches at $19,100 — half the price of a Tesla
Geely TT launches at $19,100 — half the price of a Tesla

Geely launched its new TT electric sport sedan in China, starting at 129,900 yuan (about $19,100), with 800V fast charging and LiDAR on every trim.

That price puts a 640 km sedan with next-generation charging hardware at roughly half the price of a …

CATL’s 30-year sodium-ion battery takes over grid storage
CATL’s 30-year sodium-ion battery takes over grid storage

CATL has signed a memorandum of understanding with Dutch energy company Alfen to deploy 5 GWh of its Tener Sodium energy storage systems across Europe, one of the largest sodium-ion commitments the region has seen.
The batteries are rated for 15,000 cy…

Tesla’s LFP battery holds its charge better, study says
Tesla’s LFP battery holds its charge better, study says

A new analysis of nearly 10,000 real-world EV battery tests found that the same Tesla Model 3 holds up very differently depending on which battery it was built with — and the cheaper LFP version comes out on top.
The Model 3 with CATL’s lithium iron ph…

CATL is building more than 200 battery swap stations EVERY MONTH
CATL is building more than 200 battery swap stations EVERY MONTH

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. (!)

CATL chief: solid-state batteries at ‘level 4 of 9,’ no leap until 2030
CATL chief: solid-state batteries at ‘level 4 of 9,’ no leap until 2030

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.
Speaking at…

Chinese sodium-ion battery matches Tesla on build quality, teardown finds
Chinese sodium-ion battery matches Tesla on build quality, teardown finds

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.
Resea…

The world’s biggest battery maker just pumped the brakes on solid-state EV hype

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 says sodium batteries are mainstream-ready, signs massive 60 GWh deal
CATL says sodium batteries are mainstream-ready, signs massive 60 GWh deal

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…