CATL Wins World Economic Forum’s MINDS Award for AI-Driven Next-Generation Battery Design - CleanTechnica

CATL has received the World Economic Forum’s 2026 MINDS Award for its innovative “Augmented Intelligence Leading Next-Generation Lithium-ion Battery Design” project, which sets a global standard for AI-driven industrial applications. This initiative transforms traditional lithium-ion battery research and development by combining AI with human expertise to create virtual batteries that offer superior performance, reliability, and efficiency. The project replaces conventional trial-and-error methods with a forward-looking, data-driven design approach, leveraging CATL’s extensive proprietary data and integrating physics-based electrochemical models with machine learning to accelerate and optimize battery cell design. The intelligent design platform operates on a private cloud and utilizes over 50 million data records, including 100,000 battery design cases and 600TB of test data, enabling it to produce highly customized battery designs with up to 95% prediction accuracy. This system acts as a “digital engineer,” automatically generating and refining design options within minutes, significantly reducing development cycles and costs while enhancing quality and safety—critical factors