Battery prices fell 8 per cent in 2025 to a record low of $108 per kWh, in a year when cobalt export quotas and a lithium price spike should have pushed them the other way. The chemistry that absorbed the shock was the cheapest one on the market rather than the most advanced. Lithium iron phosphate now carries about 95 per cent of new utility-scale storage awards and took 81.5 per cent of Chinese vehicle installations in April 2026. Every solid-state, sodium-ion and metal-hydrogen programme in development promises to beat lithium-ion on a measure that has stopped being the binding constraint for the buyer.About The AuthorAt heart, I am a storyteller drawn to the watershed moments that bend the technology landscape. I braid narrative with data, humanise statistics, and trace the arc from first spark to world-changing impact. My reportage, features and reviews are witty, sardonic, visual and vivid, using anecdote to illuminate rather than eviscerate.
As a technology journalist with over sixteen years of experience, I have travelled the world and the seven seas, covered every major tech conference worth its lanyard, chronicled the defining breakthroughs of the last decade and a half, and played a pivotal role in launching some of India’s most important technology publishing platforms across web, print and TV.
