Chery Announce NEW 1500km Solid-State Battery Will Shake Entire EV Industry!

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]A Chinese automaker, most Westerners cannot even pronounce, just announced a battery that does 1,500 km on a single charge. That is about 930 mi. Beijing to Shanghai, Los Angeles to the middle of nowhere in Utah on one charge. That is not a vaporware startup running on PowerPoint slides. It is Chery, the number one car exporter in China, backed by a research and development team of over 1,200 specialists and roughly 1.4 billion US dollars in investment. Their vice president just said publicly that there is no cap on what they will spend to make this happen. And when you hear what they are claiming this thing can actually do, even under the conditions where most electric vehicles on the road right now would already be dead in the snow, you will understand why the entire battery industry just stopped what it was doing. Subscribe so you are the first to hear about technology like this because this affects what you will drive in 3 years, where you can drive it, and whether the words range anxiety even mean anything by the end of this decade.

[00:01:00]But before we get to how Chery pulled this off, you have to understand who Chery actually is because most of you have never heard of them. Back in 1996, a man named Yin Tong Yue walked away from a stable, well-paying job at FAW, the biggest automaker in China at the time, and went home to a province most people on the coast had never visited.

[00:01:19]He had 300,000 yuan in seed money. That is about $43,000 to start a car company. He gathered eight engineers. They called themselves the Eight Immortals. And they set up shop in an abandoned brick factory on the edge of Wuhu. No heating, no air conditioning, the roof leaked. They held meetings in what people inside the company still called the small grass hut. Their first move was to import a used engine production line from a Ford factory in Dagenham, England, bolt together a Seat Toledo chassis, and in December of 1999, the first Chery, the Fengyun, rolled off the line. By 2006, they had built their own engine from scratch. By 2025, they sold 2.8 million vehicles globally and cracked the Fortune Global 500 at number 385.

[00:02:05]They are now in over 130 countries with more than 18 million customers worldwide, and they are the number one Chinese passenger car exporter more than 20 years running. And that grass-hut hustle, that is exactly why the spec Chery just dropped, particularly the one most automakers are praying you do not compare them to, is going to land like a bomb. But, here's the thing. While Chery was quietly building factories all over the world, the rest of the auto industry was betting everything on a different technology, and it is running into a brick wall. And that brings us to the part of the EV story nobody at Tesla or Ford wants to talk about. If you have ever sat in a Supercharger queue in January, you already know. Lithium-ion batteries, the kind powering basically every electric vehicle on the road today, are not the miracle the marketing departments told you they were. Fast charging? Sure, but only if you can find an open station, if the weather is mild, and if you do not mind standing around for 30 to 45 minutes for a top-up.

[00:03:03]Range. Most current electric vehicles sit at 250 to 300 miles in real-world conditions. Less if you are in the mountains, less if you have the heater on, way less in cold weather. And here is where it gets ugly. Idaho National Laboratory ran the numbers, and at 36° F, an electric vehicle battery accepts 36% less power than it does at room temperature. Industry data shows electric vehicles lose 20 to 30% of their range in freezing conditions, and charging times can double, sometimes triple. There is a reason every January the news cycle runs headlines about Tesla owners stranded. The chemistry simply does not work in the cold. Throw in cycle degradation, your battery getting weaker every year, plus a power grid that was not built for millions of cars charging overnight, and you start to see why electric vehicle adoption keeps hitting the same ceiling, no matter how many incentives governments throw at it. So, what is the answer to all of these problems?

[00:04:00]Chery has been working on it for over a decade. The number they just put on the table, especially under the conditions that every other electric vehicle struggles in, speaks for itself. That is exactly why what Chery just announced at Battery Night changes the conversation entirely. On March 18th, 2026, in Wuhu, Chery pulled back the curtain on the Rhino S, an all-solid-state battery. No liquid electrolyte, solid polymer-based with a lithium-rich manganese cathode packing 600 Wh per kilogram. For context, the lithium-ion pack in your friend's Tesla is sitting around 250 Wh per kilogram. Chery just stuffed 2 and 1/2 times the energy into the same physical space. Alongside the solid-state battery, Chery announced the Rhino liquid battery with peak charging power of 1,200 kW.

[00:04:48]Plug in for 8 minutes and you get 500 km of range, about as long as it takes to grab a coffee, and it is rated for 5,000 cycles. Your battery is still going strong long after most people would have traded the car in. And that is just the charging side. Wait until you hear what the solid-state version pulls off when the temperature drops, because here is where it gets really wild. Chery is claiming the Rhino S will deliver that full 1,500 km of range at minus 30°C.

[00:05:17]Yes, you heard that right. That is the temperature where your iPhone shuts off.

[00:05:22]That is the temperature where every Tesla on the road right now loses 30 to 50% of its range, and the news runs another stranded driver headline. Chery says theirs does not blink. Their vice president, Gu Chunshang, told the room there's no cap on what they will spend to get this to mass production. But, can a company best known for cheap export sedans actually scale a battery this advanced? Because the answer to that one is going to surprise you. Here is the thing. Chery is not doing this alone, and that is the part that makes this story bigger than one announcement at one event. Toyota, which holds over 1,000 patents on solid-state technology, is racing to hit small-scale production by 2027. BYD, the biggest new energy automaker on the planet, is targeting 2027 with their second-generation blade battery already in showroom. CATL, the largest battery maker in the world, is on the same timeline for 2027.

[00:06:17]Samsung SDI is running a pilot line in Korea right now. BMW, Volkswagen, and Mercedes-Benz are all on the same trajectory. The Chinese government has invested roughly $830 million US dollars into six different solid-state firms, specifically to make sure this technology happens on Chinese soil first. And Chery, their research and development team now exceeds 1,200 specialists, and they are backed by about 1.4 billion US dollars. They are rolling out a charging network called Shang Long, 100 stations across 10 cities to start, scaling to over 20,000 by 2029, with vehicle-to-grid capability and 96.5% system efficiency. So, this is not just about one car. It is about trucks, buses, buildings, power grids, and places that have never had reliable electricity. Imagine a remote village somewhere in Africa where Chery just sold its 5 millionth export access to the same battery technology as a luxury SUV in Shanghai. That is where this is heading. While everyone else is squeezing more out of an old idea, Chery and a handful of others are quietly inventing the next one, and the rest of the industry is scrambling to keep up.

[00:07:30]This is not really about one company or one car. The battery is the entire game.

[00:07:35]Whoever cracks solid-state at scale does not just sell more electric vehicles.

[00:07:39]They own the next 20 years of how the world stores and moves energy. Right now, a company that started in a leaky brick factory with eight engineers and $43,000 is staring down Toyota, BYD, and CATL and looking like a real contender. That is not a story most people know yet, but you do. So, if you love this breakdown, hit that thumbs up and subscribe. There is more coming on every player in this race. Drop your answer in the comments.

[00:08:07]Would you trust a Chery electric vehicle with a promise to go from Beijing to Shanghai on one charge? Do not miss the next video. It is queued up right now.