The world’s largest EV battery maker launched its newest product on Thursday. China’s CATL unveiled its new Freevoy Super Hybrid Battery, calling it “the world’s first” hybrid battery with over 400 km (250 mi) all-electric range. With 4C ultra-fast charging, the new battery delivers an EV-like experience.
CAO YINGYING/CHINA DAILY Driven by robust new energy vehicle demand, China's power battery industry has seen growing sales and production, with emerging technologies expected to accelerate its high-quality development, officials noted. Power batteries serve as the core component of NEVs and are the main driver in automotive electrification.
Researchers in China lead the world in publishing widely cited papers in 52 of 64 critical technologies, recent calculations by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute reveal. China’s advances in battery research have helped it gain a dominant position in electric vehicles. Gilles Sabrié for The New York Times
Over the summer, CATL also opened a first-of-its-kind experience center in China, showcasing its batteries in EVs from Tesla, Volkswagen, NIO, and others. According to data from CnEVPost, CATL leads the global EV battery market with a commanding 37.1% share through August 2024. China’s BYD is second with a 16.4% share.
China’s lead is particularly wide in batteries. According to the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, 65.5 percent of widely cited technical papers on battery technology come from researchers in China, compared with 12 percent from the United States. A CATL battery factory in Ningde, China, last year. Qilai Shen for The New York Times
At a conference held by the China Automotive Battery Innovation Alliance late last week, Ouyang Minggao, a renowned battery expert and an academician with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that in China, the closest technical route to industrialization is the sulfide-based all-solid-state batteries.