CATL

English thumb|This charging station for electric vehicles is made by CATL. Proper noun en Q18653563 en w:CATL Contemporary Amperex Technology Company Limited, a large manufacturer of EV batteries and other equipment. en 2025-12-23 China's EV Battery Giant Is Trying to Find a New Road w:Bloomberg Businessweek https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-12-23/ev-battery-giant-catl-s-expansion-plans-face-trump-and-european-pushback Inside the world’s largest battery plant, delicate robot arms coat sheets of aluminum and copper foil—each only 5 micrometers thick, about a 20th the diameter of a human hair—with an electrode slurry, a process that resembles nothing so much as spreading jam on bread. This facility, covering almost 2 square miles in Ningde, in southeastern China, is designed to produce 60 gigawatt-hours of EV batteries annually, enough to power 1 million Model Ys for Tesla Inc. It’s the flagship manufacturing hub for one of the world’s most important automotive companies, Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd., or CATL. More than 1 out of every 3 EVs made this year had a CATL battery inside, according to data from South Korea-based SNE Research—including cars from BMW, Ford, Honda, Mercedes and Tesla, as well as Chinese brands such as Xiaomi. In May the company raised $5.3 billion by selling shares in Hong Kong, and its 57-year-old founder, Yuqun “Robin” Zeng, is now one of the 30 wealthiest people on the planet, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, with an estimated fortune of $58.3 billion. https://web.archive.org/web/20260107082611/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-12-23/ev-battery-giant-catl-s-expansion-plans-face-trump-and-european-pushback 7 January 2026