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Building 30 GWh sodium-ion factory; third-generation sodium-ion technology in development
Every rechargeable battery in every electric car carries this vulnerability: if something goes wrong — a puncture, defect, or short circuit — temperatures spike and trigger thermal runaway, a self-feeding chain reaction producing toxic smoke, fire, and sometimes explosions. A team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences published in Nature Energy results on a sodium-ion battery with an electrolyte that automatically solidifies into a physical barrier when heat exceeds 150 degrees Celsius, cutting off thermal runaway before it starts. The battery survived nail-puncture and 300-degree-Celsius oven tests without smoke, fire, or explosion, a first for large-format sodium-ion cells.
Updated May 31
Overtook Tesla as world's largest battery-electric vehicle seller in 2025
Tesla delivered 358,023 vehicles in the first quarter of 2026 — roughly 8,000 fewer than Wall Street expected — while producing over 50,000 more cars than it sold. That growing gap between production and deliveries signals something automakers dread: cars sitting on lots because buyers aren't showing up. The miss marks at least the fifth quarter in which Tesla has underperformed analyst expectations since early 2024.
Updated May 30
Market leader driving China's EV price war with a 6.4% operating margin
Nio burned through more than 100 billion yuan over a decade and came within weeks of insolvency in 2019, surviving only after a government rescue. In the fourth quarter of 2025, the company posted its first-ever quarterly net profit: 282.7 million yuan, or roughly $40 million, on record deliveries of nearly 125,000 vehicles.
Surpassed Tesla as world's largest EV maker
Since April 2024, Tesla has lost more than a dozen senior executives: the heads of batteries, supercharging, North American sales (twice in a year), and operations across North America and Europe. Joe Ward -- who joined as a logistics intern in 2010 -- now runs global sales after Raj Jegannathan's abrupt departure. The exodus has left Elon Musk overseeing an unusually thin executive bench as the company tries to stabilize vehicle deliveries, defend margins against Chinese competitors, and ship the long-promised robotaxi and Optimus programs.
Updated May 27
Potential entrant to Canadian market
Canada followed the U.S. in imposing 100% tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles in October 2024. Seventeen months later, Prime Minister Mark Carney flew to Beijing and cut them to 6.1%—the first explicit break with American trade policy since Trump began his tariff offensive.
Updated May 21
World's largest EV seller (2025)
China posted a $1.2 trillion trade surplus for 2025, the largest any country has ever recorded. The number is roughly equal to Indonesia's GDP, the world's 16th-largest economy.
Solid-state at 'critical breakthrough stage'; targeting 2027 demo vehicles, mass adoption after 2030
Donut Lab's March 31, 2026 deadline for Verge Motorcycles deliveries came and went without independent verification of the company's headline specs. To rebut growing skepticism, Donut Lab launched a PR campaign called 'I Donut Believe' and published three rounds of results from Finland's VTT Technical Research Centre.
Updated May 20
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