Robin Zeng, exacting and detail obsessed, keeps a stranglehold over a market that touches everything from #Artificial Intelligence data centers to electric cars. Even if Silicon Valley wanted to, it couldn’t live without him. #Auto Future
Despite the U.S. government placing CATL on a Pentagon procurement blacklist and imposing heavy tariffs, the West remains completely dependent on the company. #A Glance of China 行摄中国
Because Western battery startups are years behind in manufacturing yields and basic electrochemistry, companies like Ford have resorted to licensing CATL's technology directly to power factories in Michigan and Kentucky. Industry experts note that if CATL disappeared tomorrow, it would trigger a catastrophic global shortage akin to OPEC vanishing from the oil market.
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How a Chinese Megabillionaire Became the Jensen Huang of Batteries
One after the other, four men jumped onto a stage at the front of a darkened, crowded hall one recent evening in central Beijing. Each of them was fired up. The subject: superadvanced batteries. One of these batteries, a man said, was perfect to power ultra-cheap electric vehicles and another ...