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On April 21, at the 2026 CATL Super Tech Day, CATL officially released its third-generation Shenxing Superfast Charging Battery, supporting ultra-high-rate charging equivalent to 10C and peaking at 15C. Specifically, charging from 10% to 35% takes just 1 minute, and from 10% to 98% takes only 6 minutes and 27 seconds; in an extremely cold environment of -30°C, charging from 20% to 98% also takes only 9 minutes, comprehensively surpassing the flash charging technology previously released by BYD on March 5, which achieved charging from 10% to 97% in 9 minutes. More notably, the Shenxing battery does not exclusively possess this charging speed; the Kirin battery and Xiaoyao battery will also be fully equipped with this performance as standard in the future.

EMNI announced on April 21 that it has signed a lithium-ion cell supply contract worth approximately $650,000 (KRW 1 billion) with ADVANTEX Battery. Under the agreement, EMNI will supply a total of 457,600 cylindrical lithium-ion cells over four months from May to August, with monthly shipments of 114,400 cells. The total contract value amounts to $653,453. The supplied products are high-capacity cells certified under India’s BIS (Bureau of Indian Standards), meeting local quality and safety requirements.

Battery recycling company Battery Solutions announced on April 21 that it has partnered with BYD, the world’s top EV seller, to enter the LFP (lithium iron phosphate) battery recycling market in South Korea for the first time.