Overview
- The 2025 World Power Battery Conference opened on November 12 in Yibin, Sichuan, showcasing the city’s consolidated role in global battery manufacturing.
- Yibin reports 210 GWh of built capacity with more than 300 GWh planned and a closed‑loop chain from raw materials to recycling, accounting for roughly one in ten power batteries worldwide.
- Sichuan Saike Power began production of a first‑phase 0.5 GWh high‑safety cell line in Yibin, part of a planned 4 GWh project claiming 300–500 Wh/kg for uses such as drones, e‑motorcycles and energy storage.
- Saike representatives said sulfide all‑solid‑state batteries are targeted for demonstration in 2027 with preliminary industrialization by 2030 across applications including EVs, 3C devices and robotics.
- EVE Energy’s chairman said competition is shifting to manufacturing quality, with a push to cut defects from PPM to PPB levels and the launch of a Shenyang cold‑region research center to address extreme‑low‑temperature performance.