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Recently, CATL's official WeChat account reported that the company has signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement with Luzhou Public Transport Group. The two parties will strengthen cooperation in areas such as cascade recycling and utilization of retired batteries, aftermarket Ningjia services, implementation of vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology, and expansion of logistics and passenger-carrying scenarios in the low-altitude economy. In Luzhou, Sichuan, 877 new energy buses are already equipped with CATL power batteries. After retirement, these batteries will continue to contribute by being repurposed for low-speed electric vehicles, energy storage backup, or precious metal resource extraction and reuse, depending on their remaining capacity. This helps urban public transportation achieve a complete closed loop from green travel to zero-carbon recycling.

According to data from the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA), the pickup truck market showed a boost in production and sales during the late spring and early summer period, with exports being particularly strong in June. In June 2026, pickup truck market sales reached 62,000 units, up 29.1% YoY and 2.8% MoM, the second-highest level for the month in the past five years. Sales from January to June totaled 343,000 units, up 11.9% YoY.

[Solid-state Battery: Hundred-tonne Production Lines Begin Centralized Commissioning in Q3, Sulphide Market Encounters a “Tonne-level” Inflection Point for Volume Ramp-up in H2] July 14, 2026 news. In H1 2026, the sulphide solid-state battery industry chain focused primarily on “line construction, commissioning, and sampling,” with actual procurement volumes being minimal — only 37 mt of lithium sulphide and 49 mt of sulphide electrolytes. Entering H2, with multiple enterprises starting centralized commissioning of hundred-tonne-level and above production lines in Q3–Q4, the industry is set to transition from “kilogram-level transactions” to “tonne-level transactions,” as the sulphide market sees substantial volume ramp-up to align with the solid-state battery vehicle integration period in 2027.