BEIJING (Reuters) - China's electric vehicle giant BYD said it will launch a new generation of blade batteries in 2025, Chinese state media CGTN reported on Saturday.

BYD's Blade Battery is a less bulky lithium-iron-phosphate battery that its Chairman Wang Chuanfu has said is safer than other alternatives in the market and will not catch fire.

(Reporting by Ella Cao, Yukun Zhang and Ryan Woo, Editing by Louise Heavens)