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World's largest battery maker; already mass-producing sodium-ion cells
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
World's largest battery maker; pursuing its own next-generation battery technologies
The best commercial lithium batteries today store about 250 to 300 watt-hours per kilogram. A team from Nankai University and the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology — which builds China's rockets and space station modules — has published results in Nature. The new fluorinated hydrocarbon electrolyte pushes lithium metal batteries to 700 Wh/kg at room temperature and nearly 400 Wh/kg at minus 50 degrees Celsius.
Updated May 30
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 May 29
Filed sulfide solid-state patent in March 2026; targeting small-scale production by 2027
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
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.
World's largest EV battery manufacturer
On December 29, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory researchers published findings in Nature Nanotechnology that flip battery science on its head. Single-crystal lithium-ion batteries, designed to avoid the grain-boundary cracking that plagued older batteries, are failing anyway — for the exact opposite reason scientists expected.
Updated May 18
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