China Follows New Battery Paths

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Does China own the EV battery market?  One may be forgiven for thinking that lithium batteries have problems that cloud their future.  Battery makers worldwide are struggling to solve these problems, but China seems to have taken the lead in breakthroughs. One of the country’s biggest competitors may be Finland’s Donut Lab, which has been promoting its 400-Watt-hour-per-kilogram cells, claiming the ability to be recharged 100,000 times.   Chinese competition may not disprove these claims, but seem to up the ante. A Chinese Consortium China may have a much bigger competitor in personnel and resources with its consortium of battery and automotive manufacturers. CASIP, or the China All-Solid-State Battery Collaborative Innovation Platform.  CATL (Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited). is probably the largest company involved, with 37.9 percent of the 2024 total world battery market in its sales profile.  Other battery manufacturers include  CALB, EVE Energy, SVOLT, Gotion High-Tech, and BYD’s battery subsidiary, FinDreams Battery.  Several state-owned auto makers are involved, as …

Donut Lab Goes for All the Marbles

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We’re Back We’ll get to Donut Lab and its controversial announcements in the next segment, but first: Following several weeks of medical treatment for a gangrenous toe, angioplasty to open blood vessels in the leg, and doses of antibiotics, the threat to your editor’s foot seems diminished, and things seem to be tending slowly toward health and wellness.  All praise to modern medicine and caring physicians. Meanwhile, In Finland Facing more pain than your editor has experienced in the (moderate) throes of illness,  a battery maker making world-class claims contends with world-class skepticism. Donut Lab, a small Finnish company, claims to be accomplishing something few of its much larger competitors have not, coming out of relative obscurity with a full range of advanced electric and electronic products.  In January, at the latest Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada, they unveiled their latest breakthrough: solid-state batteries with 400 Watt-hour energy density per kilogram – double that of many competitors. …