The Chinese car and battery manufacturer BYD has unveiled the second generation of its Blade Battery in China, apparently ...

Saudi and German researchers have developed a new solar cell with an impressive 31.2% efficiency. The cell, consisting of a perovskite-silicon tandem composite, could provide the foundation for higher ...

AACHEN, Germany — In the race to dominate the electric vehicle market, two companies stand above the rest: Tesla and China’s BYD. While Tesla pioneered the use of lithium-ion batteries and leads EV ...

Graphic rendition of the 4680 Tesla Cell (silver cell in the picture) and BYD Blade Cell (blue cell in the picture), including cross sections of both cells. Two main manufacturers dominate the EV ...

The Li-ion battery industry is dominated by giants like CATL and BYD, but Chinese carmakers also work on their own cells. Geely, the company that owns Volvo and Polestar, has just launched a new LFP ...

A group of researchers from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) in Germany have fabricated a perovskite-silicon tandem ...

A recently published article in Cell Reports Physical Science presents a detailed teardown of two popular lithium-ion battery cells: Tesla’s 4680 cylindrical cell and BYD’s Blade prismatic cell. The ...

When I wrote about the new fast-charging Short Blade batteries SVOLT revealed, the conclusion was that several battery makers were devoted not only to finding new technologies or chemistries. Most of ...