Electric vehicle fires are notoriously difficult to put out and require copious amounts of water to extinguish. It’s one of the less awesome aspects of EVs, and one that can have devastating ...

Companies in China claim they can now recover 99.6% of the nickel, manganese, and cobalt from an end-of-life EV battery. They don't make it clear if these are pilot program numbers or if that's what ...

EV fires, notoriously difficult to extinguish once they start, remain one of the toughest challenges for carmakers. Engineers continue racing to design battery packs resilient enough to survive ...

China’s battery industry has moved solid-state cells from lab slides to factory floors, promising electric cars that can travel roughly twice as far on a charge as today’s mainstream models. Instead ...

All-solid-state batteries may be the key to unlocking longer range, faster charging, and overall more efficient electric vehicles. After a series of breakthroughs, scientists in China overcame several ...

China is the undisputed heavyweight of the electric vehicle (EV) world. In 2024 alone, it accounted for more than 70 percent of global EV production and sold nearly 13 million new energy vehicles ...

China's Chery Automobile is the latest to enter the solid-state battery race. The company claims to have developed a battery that can deliver more than double the driving range of today's EVs. It ...

South Korea’s top automakers and battery companies are teaming up for the first time to take on China and advance new technology. Hyundai and Kia announced a new alliance with three EV battery giants ...

SHANGHAI/MILAN, Sept 11 (Reuters) - When Audi executives first saw the Zeekr 001 in 2021, a long-range electric vehicle with European aesthetics, it was a wake-up call for the premium German auto ...

Viewing China’s clean tech manufacturing subsidies as the primary driver of its dominance in the EV market, the EU has imposed tariffs on all Chinese EV imports. But subsidies tell only part of the ...

For more than a century, the global car industry has been defined by Western dominance — from Detroit’s muscle to Stuttgart’s precision to Tokyo’s reliability and efficiency. But in 2025, the center ...