CATL debuts e-commerce platform for direct sales to small buyers, as competition sharpens

China’s battery king Contemporary Amperex Technology Limited (CATL) is enabling direct sales to smaller energy storage system makers via its own e-commerce platform, as competition with its domestic peers intensifies. The platform, officially launched on Friday, would offer orders as small as three boxes of its energy storage products, according to a social media post by the firm. CATL is currently the world’s largest producer of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and energy storage...