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CATL

  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
    CATL’s IPO pops in Hong Kong

    Chinese battery maker’s listing is the biggest of 2025

  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
    Batteries
    CATL founder Robin Zeng expects China truck market to be 50% electric by 2028

    Battery giant’s forecast heralds sweeping disruption of global market in heavy goods vehicles

    Two long rows of Chinese trucks on a road
  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
    Chinese battery maker CATL surges 16% in biggest listing of 2025

    Strong demand for secondary offering in Hong Kong expected to lift amount raised to $5.3bn

    CATL founder Robin Zeng, right, bangs the gong at the Hong Kong stock exchange on May 20 2025 to mark its trading debut
  • Thursday, 15 May, 2025
    Explainer
    Why China’s cash-rich battery king needs a blockbuster share sale

    CATL’s Hong Kong secondary listing set to raise $4.6bn and would be world’s biggest so far this year

    Chinese battery manufacturer CATL’s domestic car business chief technology officer Gao Huang speaks at CATL Tech Day
  • Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
    Lex
    Battery maker CATL’s IPO goes against the current Premium content

    World’s largest battery maker still a tough sell despite US-China trade deal

    A display of an electric vehicle battery is featured at the CATL booth during an expo in Beijing
  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    EV battery maker CATL to raise at least $4bn

    Chinese company’s Hong Kong offering set to be biggest listing globally this year

    A model of CATL’s second-generation Shenxing Superfast charging battery on display at the Auto Shanghai show
  • Monday, 21 April, 2025
    Electric vehicles
    China’s CATL says it has overtaken BYD on 5-minute EV charging time

    New version of flagship battery cell can achieve 520km range compared with BYD’s 470km, claims company

    A model of CATL's second-generation Shenxing superfast charging battery is displayed on a platform surrounded by a crowd
  • Friday, 18 April, 2025
    House China panel head urges JPMorgan and BofA to halt work on CATL IPO

    John Moolenaar warns banks of ‘regulatory, financial and reputational risks’ for working on deal

    A sign for the battery manufacturer CATL is prominently displayed at its booth during the Beijing International Automotive Exhibition
  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
    ExplainerBatteries
    BYD’s 5-minute charge: is time running out for electric-vehicle rivals?

    Chinese carmaker’s second shock announcement of the year could put others out of business, say analysts

    A BYD Han luxury sedan on day two of the Paris Motor Show
  • Thursday, 13 March, 2025
    Northvolt AB
    Boss of bankrupt Northvolt urges Europe to invest in homegrown battery sector

    Industry executives criticise ‘strategic failure’ by Swedish government and Brussels for allowing start-up to fail

    An aerial view of the Northvolt factory in Skellefteå, north Sweden
  • Tuesday, 11 February, 2025
    World’s largest EV battery maker CATL files for Hong Kong listing

    Several Chinese companies expected to list in the territory this year as market activity revives

    A CATL display at a car show
  • Wednesday, 22 January, 2025
    Investment Banking
    Banks compete for Hong Kong’s blockbuster listing with 0.01% fees

    Chinese lenders’ ultra-low pitches for CATL secondary offering reflect scarcity of business on mainland

    A digital sign displaying "HKEX" is seen in front of the Exchange Square Complex in Hong Kong. The sign is positioned against the backdrop of tall, modern skyscrapers, including a building with a visible "J.P. Morgan" logo
  • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
    Chinese business & finance
    Pentagon blacklisting of China’s EV battery maker puts US banks in bind

    Involvement in Hong Kong secondary listing of CATL raises reputational risks for Wall Street groups

    A prototype of CATL’s Freevoy Super Hybrid Battery
  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
    US-China trade dispute
    Tencent and CATL consider legal action over inclusion on Pentagon blacklist

    Tech giant and biggest EV battery maker say designation as Chinese military companies is a ‘mistake’

    Pony Ma
  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
    US-China relations
    US adds Tencent and CATL to blacklist of companies working with China’s military

    Shares of WeChat owner and EV battery maker fall after defence department discloses designation

    A person carrying an umbrella walks past the Tencent building
  • Thursday, 26 December, 2024
    ESG investing
    ESG funds found to have $1.4bn exposure to Xinjiang labour camps

    Ignites Asia analysis has tracked investments in companies such as CATL, the EV battery maker accused of Xinjiang links

  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    China’s CATL to build €4.1bn battery factory with Stellantis in European expansion

    Deal for Spanish plant comes despite EU efforts to reduce reliance on Chinese technology

    Stellantis’s electric Opel Rocks-e car on show at the Essen Motor Show in Germany
  • Sunday, 17 November, 2024
    News in-depthHungary
    Orbán turns to China to boost recession-hit economy

    Hungary has captured more than a quarter of Chinese capital flowing into Europe since 2022

    BYD car, hungary and china flags
  • Thursday, 14 November, 2024
    #techAsia
    TSMC clamps down and CATL goes for distance Premium content

    The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times

    A prototype of the Freevoy Super Hybrid battery by CATL
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    News in-depthBatteries
    Battery makers aim to ease EV anxieties with 5-minute charge

    Industry says superfast charging for electric cars is on its way to matching the time drivers used to spend filling up at pumps

    A model of the Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. (CATL) Qilin battery on display during the Beijing Auto Show
  • Friday, 12 July, 2024
    China’s battery giant taps Europe’s elite to expand supply chain

    Tesla supplier CATL holds talks with sovereign wealth funds, family offices and automakers

    Robin Zeng
  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    #techAsia
    Taiwan in the spotlight and CATL’s subsidy haul Premium content

    The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times

    A woman arranges a candle at a candlelight vigil in Taipei
  • Wednesday, 27 March, 2024
    Interview
    China’s ‘battery king’ dismisses solid-state EV commercialisation as years away

    CATL chief Robin Zeng says much-vaunted tech for electric vehicles is impractical and unsafe

    Robin Zeng
  • Friday, 15 March, 2024
    China’s battery giant CATL hit by profit fall

    World’s largest maker of batteries for EVs reports mixed fourth-quarter results as demand growth softens

    A CATL battery
  • Sunday, 18 February, 2024
    Electric vehicles
    China’s EV suppliers look to leverage superior tech to recouple with west and drive expansion

    Industry says it can help lower costs and enable faster development of electric vehicles in the US and Europe

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