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Belkin brings semi-solid-state batteries to a $70 power bank

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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 power, trackers and chargers, and audio. The headline part is the UltraCharge Pro […]

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This graphite-free battery could break China’s grip on the EV supply chain

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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 any single country at 65%, while China processes more than 90% […]

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The company that just opened America’s newest battery plant says solid-state cars are a decade away

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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 France in February. The company that has just opened America’s newest battery plant does not think solid-state cells are […]

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GM and LG restart Ohio battery production after seven idle months

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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 earlier. The battery plant that GM and LG idled in January is […]

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China will tax lithium and solar batteries for the first time in a decade, but sodium batteries stay exempt

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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 dominance. A 2% tax on lithium-ion batteries takes effect this September, rising to 4% […]

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A Chinese scientist built a sodium battery that charges in 4 minutes. It could break China’s 75% lithium dependence.

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Lu Yaxiang, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Physics, has spent a decade making sodium-ion batteries commercially viable. In April, he received China’s Youth May Fourth Medal, the country’s top honour for outstanding achievers under 35, for developing a sodium metal battery that charges in roughly four minutes, retains 90% capacity […]

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Nintendo is pulling a console from Europe over battery rules. Meta’s glasses just got exempted from them.

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The European Commission has exempted wearable technology from rules requiring batteries that users can remove and replace. The change clears the biggest obstacle to Meta’s latest smart glasses reaching the EU, Politico reports. The delegated act, adopted on Tuesday, adds six product categories to the exemption list. It covers wearable devices such as smartwatches and fitness […]

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Huawei Digital Power now rivals Tesla’s energy division in revenue

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Ask most people what Huawei sells and you will get smartphones, or 5G, or a decade of geopolitical argument. Almost nobody says solar inverters. Yet Huawei Digital Power Technology, the division that makes them, along with battery storage systems and electric-vehicle charging kit, booked 68.7bn yuan of revenue in 2025, up 24.4% on the year […]

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The Chevy Silverado EV is one of the best electric trucks ever built, so why is nobody buying it

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General Motors sold roughly 14,000 Chevrolet Silverado EVs in the United States and Canada last year, according to GM Authority sales data. The petrol-powered Silverado moves more than ten times that volume in a single quarter. That gap, between what reviewers call one of the best electric trucks on the market and what buyers are […]

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Panasonic to localise US data-centre battery production, CEO says

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The Japanese group plans to mass-produce data-centre battery cells in Kansas by fiscal 2028, redirecting a large slice of its AI infrastructure investment toward storage. The companies that built batteries for electric cars are discovering a new and hungrier customer: the data centre. Panasonic plans to localise production of data-centre battery cells in the United […]

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