Batteries

Ford has opened US orders for the 2027 Mustang Mach-E. The 88 kWh extended-range battery is now standard on Select and Premium, the small pack is gone, and a new…

Svolt has begun series production of a 100-kWh semi-solid battery pack in Changzhou. The company claims 500 km of range in 12 minutes at 900 volts. Customer names and…

A study commissioned by ACEA says Europe's battery supply chain cannot meet the local-content rules planned in the Industrial Accelerator Act. The arithmetic per…

GM Ventures led a $108 million Series B in Peak Energy. The sodium-ion cells will be built in GM's Michigan labs for grid storage, not electric cars, and Peak claims…

Li Auto drove its refreshed i6 811.4 km on a 96 kWh pack and streamed it live. The 11.8 kWh/100 km average came from a 45 km/h urban loop in mild weather. Europe gets…

Huawei's car unit Yinwang has signed a framework deal with CATL and CAES to make Qiankun-equipped cars compatible with the 2,520-station Choco-swap network. No models…

A 25 Ah pouch cell with a silicon-rich anode survived 1,000 full cycles at 83 per cent capacity. The catch: it needed about 10 bar of external pressure to get there. …

Li Auto holds Power Day on October 20, eight days before the updated i6 launches in China. The 5C battery is confirmed, the charging numbers are not – and September…

Peugeot showed the RCZ Vision concept with a solid-state battery, a 1,000-volt system and a claimed 10–80% charge in ten minutes. We check the battery maths and the…

Bucharest will buy 40 battery-electric buses, 45 trolleybuses and 10 trams using €87.44 million of non-repayable EU money. The city covers only VAT, about €18.4…