Sodium-ion battery production is in its nascent stage, but several battery makers, including BYD, CATL and Northvolt are betting on them for certain low-energy density applications. China is ...

Tech Day in Shanghai, CATL unveiled two major innovations poised to accelerate the EV transition past internal combustion engines. Highlights included the debut of CATL's second-generation Shenxing ...

China's CATL on Monday launched a new brand for its sodium-ion batteries, Naxtra, which it said would go into mass production ...

China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited (CATL) has unveiled its latest battery cell technologies, which charge as quickly as filling up a gas tank while potentially lowering costs ...

“Sodium-ion battery technology is no longer a research achievement in laboratories,” Gao Huan, chief technology officer for EV business at CATL, told reporters at a press conference in ...

Volkswagen’s truckmaker Scania said on Friday it had agreed to buy bankrupt Northvolt’s division that makes battery packs for heavy industry, reviving a transaction first presented in February ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. European battery companies are scaling back their ambitions and striking deals with Asian competitors after ...

CATL became the first major automotive battery maker to launch a sodium-ion battery in 2021. Unlike other battery materials, sodium is cheap and abundant, and the chemistry has the potential to ...