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- BYD pursues ultra-low-cost sodium polyanion batteries for stationary storage while CATL and Changan develop passenger-vehicle sodium packs
- Nissan adopts China-inspired AI methods to cut vehicle development time to 26 months
- BYD patents underbody system to detect living organisms beneath parked vehicles
- Xiaomi announces home charging robotic arm, targeting Q4 2026 release
- Hyundai and Boston Dynamics teach Atlas humanoid robot to play football
- TCL opens automated "black light" smart cockpit factory in Shenyang
- Xiaomi under pressure to meet 550,000 target as YU7 inventory and Xuntian EREV plans surface
- Report: Sodium-ion batteries expected to reach cost parity with lithium-ion by late 2026
- Mercedes-Benz begins large-scale production of axial flux electric motor in Berlin‑Marienfelde
- Dongfeng to mass-produce solid-state batteries in H2 2026 enabling 1,000+ km range
- BMW Highway Assistant: customers have driven over 200 million km hands‑free
- Bolt, Pony.ai and Stellantis launch autonomous mobility pilot in Luxembourg
- BYD opens first 1,500 kW flash‑charging station in Germany as part of a 3,000‑site Europe rollout
- Solid-state batteries enable 22 km cross-strait eVTOL flight as China pursues commercial scale-up
- CATL unveils 'One Shell, Two Cells' interchangeable battery-pack design to avoid -25°C winter fade
- China establishes 43,000 smart factories; AI added to top-tier factory criteria
- China updates national range‑extender (EREV) standard QC/T1086‑2026 as EREV sales exceed 1 million annually
- CATL to deliver first sodium‑ion energy storage systems in September as material costs decline
- Chinese researchers report axial-flux motor achieving 25.73 kW/kg at 18,000 rpm
- Dongfeng Mach Power 2.0T hybrid engine certified at 45.5% peak thermal efficiency