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Interface News reporter Gao Jing

This week's major events in the lithium battery industry chain:

The new national standard for electric vehicle batteries was released

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mandatory national standard "Safety Requirements for Power Batteries for Electric Vehicles" (GB38031-2025) formulated by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology was released recently and will be implemented from July 1, 2026. The content of this revision mainly includes the revision of the thermal diffusion test, which further clarifies the temperature requirements of the battery to be tested, the state of power on and off, the observation time, and the test conditions of the whole vehicle, and the technical requirements are adjusted from the previous fire and explosion 5 minutes before the thermal event alarm signal to no fire, no explosion (still need to be alarmed), and the smoke does not cause harm to the occupants; Added a bottom impact test to test the protection ability of the bottom of the battery after being impacted; The safety test after the fast charging cycle is added, and the external short circuit test is carried out after 300 fast charging cycles, and it is required that there is no fire or explosion.

Funeng Technology officially changed hands

On April 15, Funeng Technology (688567.SH) announced that the company received a notice from Hong Kong Funeng on April 14 that the transfer of Hong Kong Funeng, Ganzhou InnoTron and Hengjian Industrial Control New Energy has obtained the "Securities Transfer Registration Confirmation" issued by China Securities Depository and Clearing Co., Ltd., the transfer date is April 11, 2025, the total number of shares transferred is 61.1052 million shares, the nature of the shares is unlimited tradable shares, and the transfer registration procedures for the transfer of the share agreement have been completed. After the completion of the transfer, Guangzhou Industrial Investment Holding Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Guangzhou Industrial Control Group) and its concert parties held 16.155% of the voting rights, while Hong Kong Funeng and its concert parties held 11.1454% of the voting rights. Funeng Technology officially changed hands, Guangzhou Industrial Control Group officially became the controlling shareholder of Funeng Technology, and Guangzhou Municipal People's Government became the actual controller of Funeng Technology.

Sunwoda Smart Energy signed a 400 MWh independent energy storage project

On April 15, Sunwoda Smart Energy Co., Ltd. signed a cooperation framework agreement with the Management Committee of Suzhou Yancheng Coastal Cooperative Development Park, Dafeng District, Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province, and the two parties will cooperate in the construction of a grid-side independent energy storage project with a scale of 200 MW/400 MWh. The project serves as a large-scale independent energy storage power station in the local area. The project is located on the west side of the coastal cooperative development park in Dafeng District, Yancheng City, covering an area of about 40 acres, and the entire power station consists of 40 energy storage units. After completion, it can be leased to surrounding new energy power stations as a shared energy storage, participate in electricity market-oriented transactions, smooth the peak and valley load of electricity consumption in the park, and drive the demonstration pilot of "new energy + energy storage".