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“I don’t like electronic cars,” said a middle-aged woman sitting next to me on a recent flight out of New York. “They’re more expensive and don’t go too far,” she added before casually revealing that both her sons in Texas drive Teslas.

CATL and Stellantis to invest 4.1 billion euros in a battery factory in Spain for electric vehicles, leveraging renewable energy sources. EU's green transi...

Chinese electric battery giant CATL and automaker Stellantis say they will build a major battery factory in northern Spain

Car giant Stellantis and Chinese manufacturer CATL said Tuesday they would build a $4.3-billion factory to make electric vehicle batteries in Spain, the latest bid to boost Europe's troubled EV drive.

China is reaching new heights in diversifying the battery chemistries used in electric vehicles. The country is already leading in subcategories of lithium-based chemistries, like nickel-manganese-cobalt (NMC), nickel-aluminum-cobalt (NCA) and lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP). Earlier this year, state-run utility company China Southern Power Grid even deployed sodium-ion batteries for stationary energy storage. Now…

Awkward.

The figurehead also wants to work with the future Trump administration.

If building cars were easy, everybody would do it. Well, just about every electronics maker has thought about it—Apple, Dyson, Sony, to name a few. But Chinese electronics giant Xiaomi lived out its dreams, and now it's got some real bragging rights.

Tesla placed a big bet back in 2020 when it announced that it was developing a new battery cell format. The 4680 battery, as it’s known, powers the Cybertruck and in the past, it made its way into a limited number of Model Y crossovers.

CATL, the world's largest battery maker, has introduced a new battery for hybrids with 248 miles of range.

Today on Critical Materials: study shows partial autonomy linked to distraction, payment processor and charger reliability, and CATL's new million-mile battery.