On July 16, SVOLT Energy Technology held its 2026 Global Partner Summit in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, where it unveiled four major "killer moves": the fully upgraded SVOLT Short Blade 3, the hybrid solid-liquid battery ready for launch, a dual push into energy storage and emerging markets, and the within-year mass production of Fly Stacking 4 — cementing its role as a trailblazer from the "stacking era".

Recently, VinFast Indonesia, a subsidiary of Vietnamese automaker VinFast, announced in Jakarta that it has formally established cooperation with CATL and Gotion High-Tech. The two Chinese battery companies will be fully responsible for the disposal and recycling of used electric vehicle batteries in the Indonesian market, further completing the green industry chain for local electric mobility. In the short term, VinFast will rely on its partners' mature recycling capacities for operations. In the long term, VinFast plans to continue conducting research on battery lifecycle technologies and gradually build its own battery recycling and processing capabilities once its technological reserves are sufficiently mature.

In 1983, Goodenough and Thackeray developed LMO (LiMn₂O₄) based on the LCO system. With its unique spinel structure and three-dimensional lithium-ion diffusion channels, LMO exhibits excellent C-rate performance and offers simple processing and high safety. Its core advantage lies in the abundant reserves and extremely low cost of manganese resources, far superior to refined cobalt, making it a key material for the cost reduction of lithium batteries. After four decades of industry iteration, LMO has been replaced by ternary cathode materials in the high-end EV power battery sector, yet thanks to its cost-effectiveness, it remains firmly rooted in niche markets such as electric two-wheelers, power tools, and low-speed equipment. The overall industry presents a structural landscape characterized by tight supply of high-end modified products and involution among low-end competitors.

Fast charging is a key enabler of EV adoption, but has long been seen as a hidden cost to battery longevity. Now, a research team from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand has developed an AI-based fast-charging strategy that dynamically adjusts the charging process in real time based on battery health — extending EV battery life by nearly 23% without increasing charging time. The findings have been published in the latest issue of the IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification.

On April 25, BAIC Group, CATL, and Time Power officially signed a strategic cooperation agreement. The three parties will collaborate on the development of battery-swapping vehicle models, the construction of a super-swap integrated recharging network, and battery lifecycle management. BAIC Group is among the first partners to join CATL's Chocolate Super Swap sharing network. As of April 2026, CATL's Chocolate battery swap stations have cumulatively built over 1,470 stations nationwide, covering 99 cities. It is expected that by the end of 2026, the number of swap stations nationwide will exceed 3,000, with service coverage expanding to nearly 190 cities.

In its latest institutional survey, EVE disclosed that the company has built a collaborative system integrating hydrogen, lithium, and sodium multi-technology routes to reduce single dependence on lithium resources, covering diverse scenarios including AIDC, electricity ESS, and specialty vehicles. The company pioneered traceless sodium-ion battery technology, adopting self-degradable low-carbon materials to achieve recycling-free and natural decomposition throughout the battery life cycle, fulfilling the goal of zero-carbon sodium-ion batteries. In October 2025, the first large-capacity sodium-ion battery ESS was connected to grid at the Jingmen base. In December of the same year, the headquarters of EVE Sodium Energy broke ground, with a planned 2 Gwh annual capacity and expected commissioning in 2027.