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CATL is a Chinese company and the world's largest manufacturer of lithium-ion batteries, supplying electric vehicles and energy storage systems globally.
Nickel from two Sulawesi mines linked to primary-rainforest loss may be in VW, Ford and Tesla batteries, the Guardian reported. Filings do not give the sales volumes that would tie ore to a specific car. For automakers, the near-term exposure is disclosure.
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DeepSeek is reportedly doubling its second round to 100 billion yuan at a valuation near 500 billion yuan, four months after the first. Government-backed and corporate funds are setting that price, on revenue figures attributed to The Information.
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BYD's cabinet patent filing, published October 5, 2026, submerges battery modules in dielectric fluid and routes their wiring through the top of the bath. Its focus is the boundary where those cables pass from the wet chamber to the dry electronics above.
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DeepSeek is close to raising at least 80 billion yuan at a pre-money valuation of about 500 billion yuan, roughly $75 billion, Bloomberg reported. At about 75 times its $1 billion run rate, the round sets the floor a 2027 Shanghai STAR Market listing has to clear.
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Ford CEO Jim Farley says Europe is too late to stop Chinese carmakers, which sold one in seven Western European battery EVs in early 2026. He wants Washington to take its time before letting them sell in the US.
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GM Korea is taking pre-orders for Buick's Electra E7, a plug-in hybrid SUV built entirely in China, with a starting price in the 43 million won range. That price rests on Chinese factory and battery costs and stays provisional until final pricing in November.
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GM's Buick brand has entered South Korea with the Electra E7, a China-built plug-in hybrid SUV priced from about 43 million won. The car was planned, developed and made in China, and its price is the first test of what that cost base buys GM in a third country.
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The seven-month numbers behind DeepSeek's pre-IPO round pair the best gross margin anyone reports with one of the smallest revenue lines. A Shanghai filing would put both on the record.
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Geely's new battery charges from 10% to 97% in 8 minutes 40 seconds on 2.2-megawatt chargers, 20 seconds faster than BYD's Blade. Its larger contest is with CATL, supplier of 63% of Geely's batteries and twice as profitable in the first half as 15 listed carmakers combined.
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CATL says the Debrecen plant has its permits and two cell lines in trial runs, roughly eight months after the start date its European general manager gave for late 2025 or early 2026. Equipment validation comes first.
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Reports put BYD, Xiaomi and CATL on the list for the summit on the 24th while OpenAI's Sam Altman and Greg Brockman attend the state dinner. Analysts quoted by the South China Morning Post read the missing AI founders two different ways.
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US automakers have already tested the tall pack, and CATL says it could license the design for local manufacture. Chinese cell output rose 44% to 1,240 GWh in the first half, and that volume needs somewhere to go.
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Both brokerages raised their price targets on the same fourth-quarter start-up of LFP lines replacing high-nickel capacity, though NH kept a hold rating with the stock at 162 times projected 2028 earnings.
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DeepSeek's first CFO arrives with CITIC Securities engaged and a 2027 listing as the goal. The near-term cash is a 50 billion yuan private round, and the two published accounts of June's valuation differ by nearly seven times.
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The US transportation secretary's 8 September letter objects to Ford's 66-34 joint venture with Geely in Spain. European lawmakers are drafting a law that would make a capped Chinese stake the price of entry.
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The Galaxy TT starts at 129,900 yuan with 800-volt charging on every trim and LiDAR on four of the five, and the launch price came in 16,000 yuan below the presale sticker Geely set for it a month earlier.
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Robert Lee puts solid-state in phones about ten years before cars. A 12 GWh plant at Dunkirk and Chinese pilot lines due in 2027 are built on the opposite reading.
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The pack figure is 500 Wh/kg, the brands are named, and four battery makers are aiming at the same year. What a pilot actually proves is the open question.
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Quinbrook closed A$469 million of debt for Stage 3 of its Brendale battery campus in the same week Stage 2 entered commercial operation. The pattern matters more than the megawatts.
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