CATL Introduces Ultra-Fast Charging Battery with 400km Range in Just 10 Minutes

CATL formally launched a brand new energy battery that permits quick charging.

On the afternoon of August sixteenth, on the CATL new product launch occasion, the world’s first 4C ultra-fast charging lithium iron phosphate battery ‘Shenxing Supercharge Battery’ made its official debut.

C refers back to the charge of cost and discharge capability of a battery. 1C implies that the battery might be totally charged in 1 hour. On the opposite hand, 4C signifies that the battery might be totally charged inside 1 / 4 of an hour, which is quarter-hour. Lithium iron phosphate and ternary batteries are two mainstream technological routes for lithium batteries.

According to Gao Huan, CTO of the home passenger automotive division at CATL, this battery might be charged in 10 minutes and has a spread of 400 kilometers. It additionally has an ultra-long vary functionality of 700 kilometers and helps quick charging throughout all temperature ranges. The new product is deliberate to enter mass manufacturing by the top of this 12 months and will likely be launched in the primary quarter of subsequent 12 months.

Battery charging might be understood as the method of lithium ions transferring from the optimistic electrode to the unfavorable electrode. To obtain quick charging, this course of must be smoother. Gao Huan mentioned that the efficiency of ‘Shenxing Supercharge Battery’ comes from CATL’ technological analysis and innovation in supplies, construction, system, and different features.

In phrases of accelerating the optimistic electrode, the Shenxing ultra-fast charging battery makes use of the super-electron community optimistic electrode know-how, adopts totally nano-structured lithium iron phosphate optimistic electrode materials, and builds a super-electron community to scale back the resistance of lithium ion extraction and allow speedy response to charging indicators. As for the unfavorable electrode materials, it adopts CATL’s newest second-generation quick ion ring know-how, modifies the graphite floor, will increase lithium ion insertion channels, and shortens insertion distance to create a high-speed platform for lithium ion conduction.

In addition, this battery additionally makes use of a superconductive electrolyte system, which might successfully enhance conductivity and cut back electrolyte viscosity, making the transmission of lithium ions smoother.

CATL’s most extremely regarded fast-charging battery in the business was beforehand the 4C fast-charging Qilin Battery.

Li Auto introduced to the general public in April this 12 months that it’s going to launch the world’s first all-electric automobile geared up with 4C fast-charging Qilin Battery subsequent 12 months. In conjunction with Li Auto‘s new technology of 800V ultra-fast charging pure electrical answer, it will probably obtain a charging time of 10 minutes and a spread of 400 kilometers. It isn’t clear whether or not this battery will undertake a ternary cathode or lithium iron phosphate cathode.

Qilin Battery is the third-generation CTP know-how launched by CATL in June 2022. It is an modern battery construction. Conventional energy batteries are usually assembled in a cell-module-pack (CMP) configuration, whereas CTP integrates the cells immediately into the battery pack, bypassing the module.

Due to the removing of the module casing exterior the battery cells, there may be more room for arranging the cells in the battery pack, which will increase total power density and improves driving vary. At the identical time, there’s a important discount in the variety of elements in the battery pack, decreasing manufacturing prices and weight.

Qilin Battery can enhance the power density of lithium iron phosphate battery techniques to 160 wh/kg, and the power density of ternary battery techniques to 255 wh/kg, attaining a spread of 1000 kilometers for your entire automobile.

During the investor relations occasion held in July, CATL revealed that the cooperation with Li Auto for the debut of Qilin Battery with 4C quick charging know-how is progressing easily. ‘In the long run, car manufacturers have a strong willingness to launch differentiated competitive products, and it is expected that 4C fast charging technology will occupy a considerable market share,’ mentioned the corporate.

The ‘2022 White Paper on Charging Behavior of Chinese Electric Vehicle Users’ launched by the China Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Promotion Alliance in collaboration with Nenglian ZhiDian, reveals that the majority customers are delicate to charging time. 96% of customers want fast-charging stations with excessive charging effectivity, and the demand for fast-charging amongst new power automobile customers is anticipated to additional enhance.

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Except for Ningde Times, there are at present a number of home firms which have deployed fast-charging battery merchandise.

Last September, SUNWODA launched the 1.0 model of its fast-charging battery, which might present a spread of 200 kilometers after charging for five minutes. In April this 12 months, SUNWODA launched an upgraded model of the fast-charging battery, the two.0 model, which might obtain a spread of 250 kilometers after charging for five minutes and has a complete automobile vary functionality of 1000 kilometers.

In June this 12 months, Juwan Tech launched its independently developed Juwan Phoenix battery. This battery might be charged from 0% to 80% in simply 6 minutes and has a spread of 1000 kilometers on a full cost. It will enter mass manufacturing subsequent 12 months.

At at this time’s press convention, CATL didn’t disclose any new developments relating to the M3P battery. The M3P battery is a battery developed by CATL primarily based on a brand new materials system, with higher low-temperature efficiency and power density than lithium iron phosphate batteries, and decrease price than ternary lithium batteries. In February 2022, CATL first revealed plans to launch the brand new product M3P battery.

In the 374th batch of (*10*) launched by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology this week, the Chery Star Era ES and the primary collaborative mannequin between Chery and Huawei, Zhijie S7, appeared. The aforementioned new autos are geared up with ternary lithium-ion + lithium iron manganese phosphate batteries produced by a subsidiary of CATL.

The exterior world sees it as a sign that CATL’s M3P battery is about to enter mass manufacturing. In response, CATL advised Interface News reporters that there’s at present no info accessible for disclosure. According to a report by 36Kr in June, CATL’s M3P battery might first be used in the modified model of the Model 3 rear-wheel drive customary vary mannequin and also will be used in future modified variations of the Model Y.