New and updated Batteries and energy storage pages on ContentLora.https://contentlora.com/enhttps://contentlora.com/wiki/battery-critical-minerals/https://contentlora.com/wiki/battery-critical-minerals/Lithium, nickel, cobalt, graphite and vanadium: the minerals batteries depend on, China's grip on refining, 2026 price spikes and export controls.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTWikienergy-storageenergy-climatesciencehttps://contentlora.com/wiki/battery-recycling/https://contentlora.com/wiki/battery-recycling/How lithium-ion battery recycling works as an industry: feedstock, China's capacity lead, EU recycled-content rules and why volumes lag until the 2030s.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTWikienergy-storageenergy-climatesciencehttps://contentlora.com/wiki/catl/https://contentlora.com/wiki/catl/CATL is the world's largest battery maker, supplying about 39% of EV batteries in 2025. Its scale, finances, sodium-ion push and global expansion.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTWikienergy-storageenergy-climatesciencehttps://contentlora.com/wiki/flow-batteries/https://contentlora.com/wiki/flow-batteries/Flow batteries store energy in tanks of liquid electrolyte pumped through a cell stack. How they work, vanadium's role, and the first gigawatt-hour plant.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTWikienergy-storageenergy-climatesciencehttps://contentlora.com/wiki/iron-air-batteries/https://contentlora.com/wiki/iron-air-batteries/Iron-air batteries store energy by reversibly rusting iron and target 100-hour, multi-day grid storage. Form Energy's pilots, factory and 30 GWh project.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTWikienergy-storageenergy-climatesciencehttps://contentlora.com/wiki/sodium-ion-batteries/https://contentlora.com/wiki/sodium-ion-batteries/Sodium-ion batteries swap lithium for abundant sodium. How they compare with LFP, CATL's 2026 car and storage cells, and how far scale-up has come.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTWikienergy-storageenergy-climatesciencehttps://contentlora.com/wiki/solid-state-batteries/https://contentlora.com/wiki/solid-state-batteries/Solid-state batteries replace the liquid electrolyte with a solid. What they promise, why they are hard, and who is closest to production in 2026.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTWikienergy-storageenergy-climatesciencehttps://contentlora.com/events/energy-storage-tracker/https://contentlora.com/events/energy-storage-tracker/A dated timeline of battery and energy storage milestones from 2024 to October 2026: prices, solid-state, sodium-ion, grid storage and trade policy.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTDevelopingenergy-storageenergy-climatesciencehttps://contentlora.com/analysis/battery-supply-chain-debate/https://contentlora.com/analysis/battery-supply-chain-debate/China makes most of the world's batteries and refines most battery minerals. The evidence on whether US and EU tariffs, tax rules and plants can change that.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTAnalysisenergy-storageenergy-climatepolicyhttps://contentlora.com/analysis/solid-state-batteries-readiness-debate/https://contentlora.com/analysis/solid-state-batteries-readiness-debate/Toyota, BYD, Samsung SDI and QuantumScape promise solid-state batteries by 2027-28. The evidence on whether that is a breakthrough or a niche start.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTAnalysisenergy-storageenergy-climatesciencehttps://contentlora.com/explain/energy-storage/https://contentlora.com/explain/energy-storage/A sourced crash course on batteries and energy storage: lithium-ion, LFP vs NMC, solid-state, sodium-ion, grid storage and supply chains as of October 2026.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTExplainerenergy-storageenergy-climatesciencehttps://contentlora.com/explain/how-grid-scale-storage-works/https://contentlora.com/explain/how-grid-scale-storage-works/How power grids store electricity: lithium batteries, pumped hydro, flow batteries and multi-day iron-air storage, with US and global data for 2025-2026.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTExplainerenergy-storageenergy-climatesciencehttps://contentlora.com/explain/how-lithium-ion-batteries-work/https://contentlora.com/explain/how-lithium-ion-batteries-work/How a lithium-ion cell stores and releases energy: anode, cathode, electrolyte, separator, intercalation, dendrites, and how the technology was invented.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTExplainerenergy-storageenergy-climatesciencehttps://contentlora.com/explain/lfp-vs-nmc-batteries/https://contentlora.com/explain/lfp-vs-nmc-batteries/Why cheap lithium iron phosphate (LFP) overtook nickel-rich NMC in electric cars and grid storage, and where NMC still wins, with 2025-2026 data.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTExplainerenergy-storageenergy-climatescience