Gotion Unveils Low-Altitude Battery and Zero-Carbon Cloud; Huawei Details NPO Optical Engine for Ascend 960

Gotion High-tech held a special launch at the 2026 World Manufacturing Conference in Hefei on Sept. 21, releasing the Xingchen low-altitude high-power battery, an integrated China-Europe-Africa new-energy logistics transport solution and the GotionGuard-ZERO zero-carbon digital energy cloud platform. The company focused on the low-altitude economy, cross-border green logistics and zero-carbon digital energy, and exhibited full-scenario solutions covering sea, land and air in the new-generation information technology and new energy exhibition area.

The Xingchen battery is customized for low-altitude scenarios. It uses a 46-series large cylindrical directional venting design, an all-tab structure and a hybrid solid-liquid system to support intrinsic safety and high power. Gotion said its team used AI-mechanism dual-driven simulation to optimize designs and adapt the product to complex low-altitude flight conditions. Through three-fast material technologies, fast-guide cathode, fast-path anode and fast-coagulation electrolyte, and self-developed innovations from cell to PACK, the battery offers high specific energy, high power, high safety and fast replenishment. Its single cell energy density exceeds 330Wh/kg and 850Wh/L; at below 25% SOC it still supports 6C continuous discharge and 12C pulse discharge; the PACK reaches aviation-grade zero thermal propagation; and it supports fast charging and battery swapping, with replenishment in under five minutes.

For cross-border green logistics, Gotion launched an integrated solution based on the Dianlala mobile storage-charging-swapping system. The system connects to a smart cloud platform and uses AI load forecasting and intelligent scheduling to coordinate battery assets and transport capacity, enabling power to follow the vehicle. It supports interchangeable batteries across its series and compatibility with mainstream domestic and international standards. A four-pack linked side-swapping system allows flexible power combinations for different heavy-truck swapping needs. In 2026, Gotion plans to work with GPM and other partners to build an Europe-Africa 2,600-kilometer and a China-Vietnam 2,300-kilometer green logistics trunk line.

The GotionGuard-ZERO platform is described as a digital energy operating system that combines smart planning, resource aggregation, intelligent scheduling and market trading. It uses a cloud-edge-device architecture and integrates operation monitoring, intelligent forecasting, smart maintenance, virtual power plant and transaction settlement capabilities. It connects with meteorological, grid dispatch and third-party trading platform interfaces. Its eight core applications include an AI energy planning agent for optimizing wind-solar-storage-charging ratios and calculating revenue; wind and solar smart management; smart energy storage management with million-level measurement points; smart factory energy management; an intelligent charging and swapping operation platform; a virtual power plant and power trading decision-support platform; and a carbon asset management platform that visualizes carbon flow and automates accounting.

The Huawei report said public information about Hi-ONE still leaves technical questions. Hi-ONE was disclosed at the 2025 IFOC optical communications conference as an engine with a built-in shared integrated light source and a silicon photonic chip. At 7.2T, one Hi-ONE corresponds to nine 800G pluggable modules, reducing the number of light sources and optical components. Multiple transmission paths share light source resources, and different wavelengths can be multiplexed into the same fiber through WDM. But public information does not explain how many emitters and wavelengths are used on the transmit side, or how they are allocated to 36 transmit channels. Silicon photonics does not emit light and needs a laser. Industry sources said built-in light sources are uncommon in current NPO designs, while Huawei may be seeking higher integration and a smaller optical interconnect footprint.

Another unresolved question is how Hi-ONE's 7.2T total bandwidth is used by the system. Hi-ONE has 36 optical transceiver channels, each up to 200G, for a total of 7.2T. Industry 6.4T NPO more commonly uses 32 by 200G, while Hi-ONE uses 36 by 200G. An industry observer referred to as Uncle J speculated that 36 channels could mean 32 active plus four standby for redundancy, but he noted this conflicts with Huawei's claim that 5,500 Hi-ONE engines can replace 48,000 800G modules. Using 7.2T per engine gives about 39.6 Pb/s, slightly above the 38.4 Pb/s of 48,000 800G modules; using only 6.4T per engine gives about 35.2 Pb/s, below the replacement target. He also said that because Hi-ONE is deployed close to the NPU and first connects to in-cabinet Lingqu interconnect blades rather than cross-cabinet Lingqu devices, and because Huawei has not disclosed whether the 176 1.6T ports also use Hi-ONE, dividing parameters from different levels is only speculation. The 36 channels may be allocated differently or may be Huawei's own chosen width, he said.

On standards, Huawei has launched the OPEN NPO project with China Mobile Research Institute, JD Cloud, Baidu and leading optical component and connector manufacturers while keeping core systems self-developed. The report said Huawei's nearly 30 years of optical network experience allows it to combine Ascend compute, Lingqu intra- and inter-machine high-speed connections, and Hi-ONE optical links. Industry sources said Alibaba and Tencent are also working on NPO and supernode optical interconnect but lack Huawei's complete hardware chain, so they need to define system and interconnect requirements for suppliers. Standard efforts include the Open CPX MSA 1.0 specification released in September by Coherent, Marvell, Molex and other vendors, which includes 6.4T, 7.2T and different light source schemes in one socket and management framework. OIF has also started a formal NPO module standard project proposed by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology with Huawei, Tencent, Alibaba Cloud, Meituan and China Mobile, covering 6.4T and 12.8T, 200G per channel, and aiming to unify mechanical form, electrical interfaces, power, liquid cooling and optical connections. Industry sources said NPO may not need a single unified standard because it serves relatively closed Scale-Up scenarios inside supernodes, and multiple interface specifications can coexist.