Letters | Asia can’t sit back as China wins the next-gen battery race
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The ability to store energy – reliably, cheaply and at scale – will define which nations thrive in the next few decades. And here, the numbers are hard to ignore: China is leading by a wide margin.
By 2025, China is projected to control more than 80 per cent of global solid-state battery capacity, nearly the entire sodium-ion sector and 40 per cent of redox-flow battery capacity.
These are not abstract figures; they represent a strategic reality. If batteries become as critical as oil once was, Asia risks swapping one dependency for another.
Not long ago, many assumed the breakthrough would come from Silicon Valley or Tokyo. Instead, it is China that has shown the capacity to scale.