Overview
- China will introduce a dedicated '15th Five' special plan to guide power‑battery development, expand application scenarios and advance lifecycle carbon management.
- MIIT leadership said electrification is spreading beyond cars to machinery, ships, aircraft and robots, with policies to support battery swapping, vehicle‑to‑grid pilots and improved industry governance.
- The China Automotive Technology Research Center is drafting national terminology and classification standards that group batteries into solid‑state, solid‑liquid hybrid and liquid categories.
- CATL became the first pilot enterprise granted a conditional road‑transport exemption, allowing its lithium batteries to move by ordinary trucks without mandatory armed escort to reduce logistics bottlenecks and costs.
- Yibin highlighted its integrated cluster with over 300 GWh planned capacity as Saike Power began phase‑one production of high‑safety cells rated at 300–500 Wh/kg, while Dongfeng set a September 2026 target to mass‑produce 350 Wh/kg solid‑state cells for vehicles.