CATL and UL Solutions Join Forces to Advance Battery Safety and Performance

On January 17, Chinese battery large CATL and international chief in utilized security science UL Solutions introduced a brand new MOU for strategic cooperation to assist create safer deployment and use of battery vitality storage techniques (BESS) and electrical automobile batteries.

As the important thing a part of the settlement, CATL’s battery laboratory will kick off the method to obtain UL Solutions witness check knowledge program (WTDP) standing to check to UL 9540A, the Standard for Test Method for Evaluating Thermal Runaway Fire Propagation in Battery Energy Storage Systems. Once reaching WTDP designation by UL Solutions, CATL might be entitled to conduct WTDP assessments at its check services below the supervision of UL Solutions personnel, thus bettering the effectivity and shorten time to marketplace for battery merchandise certification and testing.

CATL has already been certified by UL Solutions by way of the WTDP designation, to check to UL1973, the Standard for Batteries for Use in Stationary and Motive Auxiliary Power Applications, UL 9540, the Standard for Energy Storage Systems and Equipment and UL 2580, the Standard for Batteries for Use in Electric Vehicles.

EnerOne, CATL’s flagship outside liquid cooling battery system, and EnerC, CATL’s containerized liquid-cooling battery system, have obtained the most recent model of UL 9540A check report, making CATL the primary firm in China to obtain check report of such sort on the cell, module, unit and set up degree by UL Solutions.

Both events can even leverage their experience to perform in-depth cooperation in additional exploring lithium-ion battery security and provide perception in the direction of creating BESS and EV battery requirements. The two firms can even collaborate to discover carbon footprint discount and different sustainability efforts.

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On the identical day, CATL signed a brand new partnership settlement with NIO. The partnership can even contain coordination of provide and demand, abroad enterprise growth, and cooperation in enterprise fashions based mostly on long-life batteries. In addition to a brand new provider, NIO is creating its personal batteries.

CATL predicts that in 2022, it achieved a web revenue of 29.1 billion yuan ($4.3 billion) to 31.5 billion yuan, a year-on-year improve of 82.66%-97.72%, whereas the adjusted revenue was about 26.8 billion yuan to 29 billion yuan, up 99.37%-115.74% year-on-year.

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