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  • Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
    Energy Source
    Are salt batteries the future? Premium content

    Demand for sodium-ion batteries will grow slower than CATL expects, analysis finds

    Vehicle batteries with the CATL logo sit on display
  • Thursday, 26 June, 2025
    Batteries
    CATL to bring battery-swapping technology to Europe

    World’s biggest EV battery maker says global co-operation will help ease pressure on supply chains

    A model of the next generation battery for use with swapping station by CATL
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
    CATL’s IPO pops in Hong Kong

    Chinese battery maker’s listing is the biggest of 2025

  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
    Batteries
    CATL founder Robin Zeng expects China truck market to be 50% electric by 2028

    Battery giant’s forecast heralds sweeping disruption of global market in heavy goods vehicles

    Two long rows of Chinese trucks on a road
  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
    Chinese battery maker CATL surges 16% in biggest listing of 2025

    Strong demand for secondary offering in Hong Kong expected to lift amount raised to $5.3bn

    CATL founder Robin Zeng, right, bangs the gong at the Hong Kong stock exchange on May 20 2025 to mark its trading debut
  • Thursday, 15 May, 2025
    Explainer
    Why China’s cash-rich battery king needs a blockbuster share sale

    CATL’s Hong Kong secondary listing set to raise $4.6bn and would be world’s biggest so far this year

    Chinese battery manufacturer CATL’s domestic car business chief technology officer Gao Huang speaks at CATL Tech Day
  • Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
    Lex
    Battery maker CATL’s IPO goes against the current Premium content

    World’s largest battery maker still a tough sell despite US-China trade deal

    A display of an electric vehicle battery is featured at the CATL booth during an expo in Beijing
  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    EV battery maker CATL to raise at least $4bn

    Chinese company’s Hong Kong offering set to be biggest listing globally this year

    A model of CATL’s second-generation Shenxing Superfast charging battery on display at the Auto Shanghai show
  • Monday, 21 April, 2025
    Electric vehicles
    China’s CATL says it has overtaken BYD on 5-minute EV charging time

    New version of flagship battery cell can achieve 520km range compared with BYD’s 470km, claims company

    A model of CATL's second-generation Shenxing superfast charging battery is displayed on a platform surrounded by a crowd
  • Friday, 18 April, 2025
    House China panel head urges JPMorgan and BofA to halt work on CATL IPO

    John Moolenaar warns banks of ‘regulatory, financial and reputational risks’ for working on deal

    A sign for the battery manufacturer CATL is prominently displayed at its booth during the Beijing International Automotive Exhibition
  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
    ExplainerBatteries
    BYD’s 5-minute charge: is time running out for electric-vehicle rivals?

    Chinese carmaker’s second shock announcement of the year could put others out of business, say analysts

    A BYD Han luxury sedan on day two of the Paris Motor Show
  • Thursday, 13 March, 2025
    Northvolt AB
    Boss of bankrupt Northvolt urges Europe to invest in homegrown battery sector

    Industry executives criticise ‘strategic failure’ by Swedish government and Brussels for allowing start-up to fail

    An aerial view of the Northvolt factory in Skellefteå, north Sweden
  • Tuesday, 11 February, 2025
    World’s largest EV battery maker CATL files for Hong Kong listing

    Several Chinese companies expected to list in the territory this year as market activity revives

    A CATL display at a car show
  • Wednesday, 22 January, 2025
    Investment Banking
    Banks compete for Hong Kong’s blockbuster listing with 0.01% fees

    Chinese lenders’ ultra-low pitches for CATL secondary offering reflect scarcity of business on mainland

    A digital sign displaying "HKEX" is seen in front of the Exchange Square Complex in Hong Kong. The sign is positioned against the backdrop of tall, modern skyscrapers, including a building with a visible "J.P. Morgan" logo
  • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
    Chinese business & finance
    Pentagon blacklisting of China’s EV battery maker puts US banks in bind

    Involvement in Hong Kong secondary listing of CATL raises reputational risks for Wall Street groups

    A prototype of CATL’s Freevoy Super Hybrid Battery
  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
    US-China trade dispute
    Tencent and CATL consider legal action over inclusion on Pentagon blacklist

    Tech giant and biggest EV battery maker say designation as Chinese military companies is a ‘mistake’

    Pony Ma
  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
    US-China relations
    US adds Tencent and CATL to blacklist of companies working with China’s military

    Shares of WeChat owner and EV battery maker fall after defence department discloses designation

    A person carrying an umbrella walks past the Tencent building
  • Thursday, 26 December, 2024
    ESG investing
    ESG funds found to have $1.4bn exposure to Xinjiang labour camps

    Ignites Asia analysis has tracked investments in companies such as CATL, the EV battery maker accused of Xinjiang links

  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    China’s CATL to build €4.1bn battery factory with Stellantis in European expansion

    Deal for Spanish plant comes despite EU efforts to reduce reliance on Chinese technology

    Stellantis’s electric Opel Rocks-e car on show at the Essen Motor Show in Germany
  • Sunday, 17 November, 2024
    News in-depthHungary
    Orbán turns to China to boost recession-hit economy

    Hungary has captured more than a quarter of Chinese capital flowing into Europe since 2022

    BYD car, hungary and china flags
  • Thursday, 14 November, 2024
    #techAsia
    TSMC clamps down and CATL goes for distance Premium content

    The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times

    A prototype of the Freevoy Super Hybrid battery by CATL
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    News in-depthBatteries
    Battery makers aim to ease EV anxieties with 5-minute charge

    Industry says superfast charging for electric cars is on its way to matching the time drivers used to spend filling up at pumps

    A model of the Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. (CATL) Qilin battery on display during the Beijing Auto Show
  • Friday, 12 July, 2024
    China’s battery giant taps Europe’s elite to expand supply chain

    Tesla supplier CATL holds talks with sovereign wealth funds, family offices and automakers

    Robin Zeng
  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    #techAsia
    Taiwan in the spotlight and CATL’s subsidy haul Premium content

    The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times

    A woman arranges a candle at a candlelight vigil in Taipei
  • Wednesday, 27 March, 2024
    Interview
    China’s ‘battery king’ dismisses solid-state EV commercialisation as years away

    CATL chief Robin Zeng says much-vaunted tech for electric vehicles is impractical and unsafe

    Robin Zeng
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