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Why China is betting on semi-solid batteries before all-solid-state arrives

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A new national standard effective this July classifies lithium batteries as liquid, semi-solid or solid, with semi-solid also called half-solid and solid meaning all-solid-state. The road map is explicit: 2026 for semi-solid volume production, 2030 for small-batch all-solid-state, and 2035 for next-generation solid-state in some affordable cars. Semi-solid comes in two paths, an all-inorganic solid … Read more

Before Solid-State Batteries ‘Flip the Table,’ China Is Betting on the Hybrid

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Huang Xuejie, a leading Chinese lithium-battery scientist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has a timing argument the industry should hear: 2026 is the mass-production year for hybrid solid-liquid batteries, and full solid-state will not “flip the table” until after 2035. Between now and then, the hybrid is where the money and the deployment are. … Read more

Gotion and CALB Are Racing Into Huawei’s ‘Whale’ Battery Platform, 0.08% Apart

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The narrative that battery makers only earn thin margins is over. At the 2026 Greater Bay Area auto show, only two power-battery makers, CALB and Gotion High-tech, took independent stages, and in the first four months of the year their installed volumes differed by just 0.14 GWh, a 0.08 per cent gap in share, slotting … Read more