Benchmark Mineral Intelligence

China’s battery scale is moving from electric cars into the grid

BYD shipped 60 GWh of battery energy storage systems in 2025, edging past Tesla’s 46.7 GWh.

Donut Lab’s solid-state battery: Too good to be true?

A startup with no commercial track record just claimed to solve the two biggest battery problems—charging speed and lifespan—using sodium and carbon instead of lithium.

Second-life EV batteries power data centers—with real tradeoffs