New type of battery
The Chinese battery manufacturer CATL presents a new type of battery for electric aircraft, which is also very interesting for the car industry. The weight of batteries can be reduced considerably.
Battery giant CATL, battery supplier to BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Volvo and Ford, among others, will present a special new battery type during Auto Shanghai. The condensed battery is primarily intended for aviation, as a very high energy density per kilo is possible; 500 Wh per kilo. That is roughly twice the energy density of a modern lithium-ion battery. According to CATL, this is partly due to ‘highly conductive electrolytes, cathode materials with ultra-high energy density and innovative anode materials’. We will spare you all the technical details, but read on feel free to discuss this further.
Although CATL presents the new battery technology as a handy solution for electric aviation, it is of course not for nothing that people are proclaiming this at a car fair. CATL says it is also working on such batteries for use in the automotive industry. Future music? No, according to CATL, car batteries with this technology will go into large-scale production this year.
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– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl