by SAVIOUS-PARKER KWINIKA
JOHANNESBURG – AN expert projects Huawei’s filing a patent for a 3 000-km electronic vehicle (EV) battery that charges in five minutes will disrupt the markets, particularly Wall Street.
The Chinese technology brand has reported developing the new solid-state battery with a driving range of over 3 000km on a single charge.
The battery is said to feature a nitrogen-doped sulfide electrolyte which significantly enhances the energy density to 400–500 Wh/kg, which is rated three times higher than current lithium-ion batteries.
“But the tech is only half the story. The deeper threat is who filed the patent,” stated William Huo, Intel’s first Chief Representative in Beijing.
“Huawei is employee-owned. It has no stock ticker. It doesn’t answer to Wall Street or the Shanghai exchange. It builds for the state, not for the street.”
Huo said this was the reason Huawei’s patent “rattles” markets.
“It proves a hard truth: you don’t need neoliberal capital markets to do deep tech. You need time, focus, and industrial alignment. Huawei has all three. Goldman Sachs has none.”
Huo believes a 3 000-km EV battery that charges in five minutes was not on but invalidated the timelines, budgets and roadmaps of Western automakers and suppliers still stuck in incremental lithium tech.
He noted China now filed 36 percent of global solid-state patents.
“Their labs aren’t startups. They’re state-backed R&D (research and development) war rooms. The goal is tech sovereignty, not a Nasdaq exit.”
Huo concluded, “While Wall Street has a panic attack, China is laying track, 3 000 km at a time.”
Commenting on Huawei’s latest achievement, Shivam Bhutani, an automobile parts entrepreneur, who is also a tech enthusiast, swift coder and artificial intelligence (AI) tinkerer reacted saying: “Very impressive battery tech improvement over the years, but market launch timeline is not mentioned. Any ideas? Or still in the prototype phase?”
Verner Verass, a renowned designer and artist remarked: “…….it could change the face of the EV industry. It could entirely eliminate range anxiety and charging delays, therefore promising a brighter and bolder future of EVs……”
- – CAJ News
