Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited (CATL)

World's largest battery manufacturer, supplying cells for electric vehicles and grid storage systems globally. - Partnering with Quinbrook on eight-hour duration storage

When Tesla built a 100-megawatt battery in South Australia in 2017, it was the world's largest. Eight years later, Australia has become the third-largest grid battery market globally, adding 8.6 gigawatt-hours of storage in 2025 alone—a tripling from the previous year. The country now has nearly 100 grid-forming battery projects in its development pipeline.

Updated Feb 17

World's largest EV battery manufacturer pioneering sodium-ion technology. - Launching mass production of sodium-ion batteries in 2026

MIT Technology Review dropped its 25th annual list of breakthrough technologies on January 12, 2026—250 predictions over a quarter century. This year's ten picks span sodium-ion batteries poised to power the next generation of cheap EVs, generative AI that's rewriting how software gets built, and personalized CRISPR treatments custom-made for individual babies. The list includes embryo screening for intelligence that's reigniting eugenics debates and hyperscale data centers devouring city-sized power loads to train AI models.

Updated Jan 12

Chinese battery giant leading commercialization of sodium-ion and fast-charging technologies. - World's largest EV battery manufacturer

On December 29, researchers from the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory published findings in Nature Nanotechnology that flip battery science on its head. Single-crystal lithium-ion batteries—designed specifically to avoid the grain-boundary cracking that plagued older batteries—are failing anyway. But they're cracking for the exact opposite reason scientists expected.

Updated Dec 30, 2025