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Live from The Battery Show North America in Detroit, Christoph Lienemann (Battery News) and Lauren Allanson (Volta Foundation) break down the third quarter of 2026. LFP keeps taking over energy storage. Solid-state moves from pilot lines toward mass production. And Europe’s new gigafactories are increasingly built on Asian capital. Then the spotlight turns to the material nobody talks about: graphite, the heaviest component in every battery and almost entirely processed in China. Our guest from CarbonX explains how a Delft spin-off wants to make anode material inside existing carbon black plants, and what that means for supply chains in Europe...

The battery industry just had one of its most turbulent and telling quarters in years. Lithium prices nearly doubled. The EU fired its biggest policy shot yet at Chinese dominance. Solid-state batteries moved from lab to pilot line. And yet — in the US — some of the most promising battery startups quietly shut their doors.
So what does it actually take to win in this industry right now?
To launch Battery Matters, we sit down with someone who has lived that question from the inside. Sebastian Wolf spent years as COO at PowerCo, the Volkswagen Group's battery company —...