[New] The annual EV battery demand can increasingly be covered by the recycled EV battery material supply to around 61% in California by 2050, whereas the annual battery demand for stationary storage can already be covered fully by second use of EoL EV batteries before 2030.
PubMed Central (PMC)
[New] Citi forecasts CATL's sales will grow 31% in 2026, with energy storage batteries jumping 45% and EV batteries rising 27%.
youth4planet
[New] In Europe, new regulations set to take effect in 2026 will introduce battery passports, digital records that track a battery's composition, usage, and lifecycle.
Torque News
[New] Excluding losses in the recycling process, secondary battery supply can cover 61% of the EV battery demand on the pack level by 2050, and 82% by material mass for all battery materials aggregated.
PubMed Central (PMC)
[New] Around ten recycling plants, each with a capacity of processing around 90,000 t of lithium-ion battery waste annually, would be needed by 2050 to process all waste streams of EV batteries in California.
PubMed Central (PMC)
[New] Recycling of all EoL EV batteries results in GHG emission savings of about 48.3 MtCO2eq until 2050, driven by the replacement of primary raw materials in battery production.
PubMed Central (PMC)
[New] Second-life batteries could meet up to 67% of China's energy storage demand by 2050.
Auto Recycling World
[New] China has identified a significant opportunity in its EV scrapyards: reusing retired vehicle batteries for stationary energy storage.
Auto Recycling World
[New] Used electric vehicle batteries could supply up to 67% of China's energy storage demand by 2050, provided packs are safely tested, graded and redeployed.
Auto Recycling World
[New] Plans are to add more than 17 gigawatts of solar and 7.6 gigawatts of battery energy storage during the next decade, which could boost solar to around 35% of FPL's power generation mix by 2034, up from roughly 9% today. / USA
tradingkey.com
[New] Battery electric heavy goods vehicles could become a viable alternative for long-distance and heavy-duty applications by the mid-2030s.
Engineering and Technology Magazine
[New] In Italy, the first MACSE auction has already contracted 10 GWh of utility-scale battery storage for delivery in 2028, including about 1.3 GWh from battery storage with durations of 8 hours or more.
IEA
[New] Solar panels, electric vehicles, and batteries could suddenly become more attractive as we face the drastic consequences of a disruption in the global fossil-fuel supply.
MIT Technology Review
Grid-scale battery storage capacity is projected to expand nearly 35-fold between 2022 and 2030, reaching nearly 970 GW globally, with 170 GW expected to be added in 2030 alone.
Persistence Market Research
By 2026, US publicly traded lithium-ion battery manufacturers are projected to supply over 60% of new grid storage projects.
Farmonaut
Top US lithium-ion battery firms expect a 35% production increase, fueling electrification in agriculture and mining by 2026.
Farmonaut
Approximately 500,000 tons of spent electric vehicle (EV) batteries are currently retired each year, a figure projected to reach 7 million tons by 2035.
AZoCleantech
Reaching the throughput required by the 2030s will depend on automated disassembly at scale, standardized pack architecture, and digital battery passport infrastructure enabling condition-based routing of retired packs to reuse or recycling pathways.
AZoCleantech
BYD and CATL, which accounted for over 55% of global EV battery sales last year, both plan to begin small-scale production in 2027.
Electrek
Factorial's solid-state EV batteries could be used in EVs as early as 2027.
Electrek
Tesla and LG Energy Solution will invest $4.3 billion in a Michigan plant to produce LFP prismatic battery cells for Megapack 3 energy storage systems, with production starting in 2027 to strengthen U.S. supply chains.
Battery-Tech Network
Last updated: 05 April 2026
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