LG Energy Solution and Seoul National University report experimental lithium manganese-rich cells retaining 92.2% of their energy after 883 cycles, achieved by changing charge and discharge voltages rather than materials. The chemistry replaces nickel …
The car industry keeps calling this battery chemistry a decade away. Belkin has just put it in a $69.99 power bank. The company announced three product lines at IFA 2026 in Berlin on Thursday. They arrived as three separate releases, covering portable …
Pure Lithium says a laboratory cell with no graphite anode completed 9,315 charge and discharge cycles with almost no capacity loss, a result no third party has validated. The EU wants to process 40% of its own strategic raw materials by 2030 and cap a…
LG Energy Solution says the unsolved problem in solid-state batteries is making large cells at scale, and expects the technology to reach smartphones roughly a decade before electric vehicles. Europe’s first solid-state gigafactory broke ground in Fran…
A 1918 Detroit Electric Model 75B went under the hammer at Monterey Car Week claiming an original 80 miles of range, against the 73 miles the first Nissan Leaf was rated for. The format died because of the electric starter and a price five times a Mode…
LG Energy Solution began production on Tuesday at its $2bn Lansing plant, which was originally a GM joint venture before GM sold its stake in December 2024. It will make cells for Toyota’s 2027 Highlander EV and, from next year, for Tesla’s Megapack 3….
Ultium Cells, the GM and LG Energy Solution joint venture, restarts EV battery cell production in Warren, Ohio next week after a seven-month shutdown, with about 1,400 workers. US EV sales rose 14.2% in the second quarter but remain 20.5% below a year …
Samsung SDI is taking full control of its Indiana battery plant. The South Korean cell maker is buying out General Motors’ 49.99% stake in their joint venture, according to a regulatory filing, ending GM’s ownership in the $3.5 billion factory.
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A home-battery company that did not exist three years ago is now worth $13bn. Base Power has raised $1bn in a Series D and launched its own battery, Base Core. The bet behind the number is blunt: the grid cannot keep up with America’s power demand, and…
China will impose a consumption tax on lithium-ion and solar batteries for the first time in a decade, marking a policy shift as Beijing seeks to rein in overcapacity and destructive price wars in industries it spent years subsidising into global domin…