Category: Battery Technology

China’s Battery Supremacy Tests Southeast Asia’s EV Ambitions

At a recent auto show in Jakarta, a curious pattern emerged. The most common questions from potential buyers of products from the EV industry were simple: How far will it go? Will it last? How is the safety? The answers to all three lie deep within the ...

Chinese EV Investment Shifts Abroad, Tech Stay Home: Report

Chinese EV makers invested more abroad than at home in 2024 for the first time, Rhodium Group data show, but real production capacity and completion rates remain overwhelmingly domestic, revealing early-stage globalization with high foreign execution risk. About 15% of ...

Indonesia Taps Australian Lithium as China Builds EV Battery Plant

Indonesia will soon begin importing lithium from Australia to address a critical shortage of this essential raw material needed for its rapidly expanding electric vehicle (EV) sector, according to Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Bahlil Lahadalia. The decision highlights ...

China Corners the Market on a Little-Known but Crucial Tech Mineral

A Chinese mining and materials giant, Sinomine Resource Group, is ramping up its dominance in the critical minerals sector, with a $400 million investment in Zimbabwe for the construction of the world’s second cesium smelting plant.   The move positions Sinomine ...

BYD Tops Southeast Asia EV Sales, Tesla Drops in Hong Kong

BYD overtakes Tesla in Hong Kong and dominates Indonesia’s EV market in the first half of 2025. With tariffs rising in the West, China’s electric vehicle giants are rapidly expanding across Southeast Asia. In the first half of 2025, ...

Analysis from Cobus van Staden

Plugging into African Agency

After several years of declining funding, the African end of the Belt and Road Initiative seems to be roaring back. The newest Griffith University/Green Development Finance Center data on the Belt and Road Initiative shows that engagement with Africa jumped by 395%, while a few big projects boosted engagement in Nigeria alone more than twelvefold.

These shifts indicate a window of opportunity for African electrification. 60% of Africans still lack ...

Youthful Technicians Building Malawi’s E-bikes Driven by Chinese Tech

An electric vehicle (EV) company in Malawi, one of the continent’s smallest and landlocked economies, is making groundbreaking efforts to electrify transportation in the country, which is also one of the poorest in the world. Despite the challenges of raising capital ...

Indonesia and China’s Battery Alliance Must Be Built on Sustainability

In a bold display of ambition and diplomacy, Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto stood beside Chinese executives last week to break ground on what is touted as Asia’s largest integrated electric vehicle (EV) battery ecosystem. Backed by $5.9 billion in ...

EV Overtake Hybrids in Indonesia, Car Market Shrinks 15% in May

Indonesia’s car market shrank sharply in May, with wholesale vehicle sales plunging 15.1% year-on-year, as high borrowing costs, weak consumer sentiment, and sluggish wage growth continued to weigh on Southeast Asia’s largest automotive economy. Yet amid the broader contraction, one ...

China E-Mobility Weekly Digest: Morocco Secures $282 Million Chinese Battery Plant Pushing Deeper Into EV Supply Chain

This is a free preview of the upcoming Africa EV Weekly Digest, part of the new CGSP Intelligence service launching in Summer 2025. Topline Insight Chinese battery materials giant Tinci Materials ...

Chinese Battery Giant’s Splashy IPO Highlights New Energy Tensions

Shares in Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. (CATL) surged after the world’s largest maker of batteries made an eye-popping initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong. Stocks in the world’s largest battery-maker are up by 16% after it raised $4.6 billion in the world's largest share listing this ...

Chinese EV Battery Giant CATL Shares Surge in Hong Kong IPO

Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. (CATL), the world’s largest EV battery manufacturer, saw its shares surge more than 16% during its debut on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Tuesday, following a $4.6 billion initial public offering (IPO). The listing ...

Chinese Battery Giant CATL Seeks $4 Billion in Hong Kong IPO

Chinese battery giant CATL makes its debut on the Hong Kong stock exchange on Tuesday, with the firm aiming to raise $4 billion in the largest initial public offering (IPO) in the city so far this year. A global leader in ...
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