Writer and occasional reluctant perpetrator of engine swaps, James O'Neil is a malaise era enthusiast and also fascinated by the many ways the auto industry has since recovered from those dark days.

The new MG4, the world’s first mass-produced EV with a semi-solid-state battery, has quickly become a bestseller in China, ...

At its Super Technology Day event in late April 2026, CATL, the company that supplies roughly one in three EV batteries sold ...

Writer and occasional reluctant perpetrator of engine swaps, James O'Neil is a malaise era enthusiast and also fascinated by the many ways the auto industry has since recovered from those dark days.

Solid-state battery tech reaches production car, and it's crazy cheap When it comes to electric vehicles, there's always a race to be first. It was only a matter of time until we got the first ...

Sometimes billed as the "holy grail" of sustainable driving, solid-state batteries have long been stuck between theory and ...

MG4 with semi-solid-state battery pack revealed in patent photos by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). The semi-solid-state tech will permit greater thermal safety, ...

Factorial's solid-state batteries are almost ready for primetime use and could give American automakers an advantage on EVs.

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China's semi-solid state car batteries are going to change electric vehicles in some very important ways, but it is essential to remember that semi-solid state and solid state batteries are two ...

If you can believe the ambitious claims in a slickly produced video released Jan. 4 ahead of the CES technology show in Las Vegas, a battery revolution is coming this year that could upend the ...

The battery has long been the weak link of the electric bike. It degrades in the cold, ages poorly with fast charging, and ...