The world's biggest electric car battery maker - CATL - may have become complacent when it comes to innovation, reports local media. It now has to fight to bring back NIO's business when it comes to the unique 600+ mile battery pack for its ET5 and ET7 sedans. NIO developed the 150 kWh "semi-solid state" battery with a nimbler competitor instead of with CATL, forcing it to go back to the negotiation table with a new "ultrahigh nickel" technology and a new EV battery chemistry offer.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/CATL-strives-to-be-NIO-s-600-mile-range-semi-solid-state-battery-supplier-with-a-new-ultrahigh-nickel-tech.588589.0.html
Sssh! Neglected News: Solid State revolution - without Nickel or Cobalt !
Georgia Institute of Technology - read on for details.
This would of course be bad, unwelcome news for the usual suspects - Mining Moguls, commodity traders, Wall St et al...
(Hence the deafening, near-universal media silence).
As I'm not permitted to include links in this message - please web-search(copy+paste) this headline (from Machine Design):
"New Lithium Battery Design Eliminates Costly Cobalt and Nickel":
At: machinedesign(dot)com/materials/article/21838129/new-lithium-battery-design-eliminates-costly-cobalt-and-nickel
Paul G (Editor: EVUK - campaigning for an EV-Driven Green and Ethical Revolution since..1999)