Li will drive an ET7 with a 150-kWh battery pack from Shanghai on December 17 at 6:30 am native time and live-stream his expertise.
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William Li, founder, chairman and CEO of Nio (NYSE: NIO), might be testing the corporate’s 150-kWh battery pack in individual, heralding the semi-solid-state battery’s imminent entry into service.
“At 6:30 am tomorrow (December 17), I will be driving from Shanghai with Tencent Information’ Huang Chenxia in an ET7, and collectively we’ll take a look at simply how far the 150-kWh battery pack can assist the car on the freeway,” Li stated as we speak in a publish on the Nio app and Weibo.
Nio’s NT 1.0- and NT 2.0-based fashions have accomplished validation and regulatory filings for the pack, and the workforce has carried out a wide range of checks through which the pack has exceeded expectations for efficiency, together with vary, Li stated.
A while in the past, three customers within the Netherlands drove an ET7 in a continuous relay, masking 6,000 kilometers in 72 hours and 51 minutes, from the northernmost level to the southernmost level of the European continent, setting a file for the shortest time for an EV over the identical mileage, he stated.
“Impressed by them, I made a decision to drive myself to check the freeway vary efficiency of the 150-kWh battery,” Li wrote.
Li’s take a look at might be live-streamed in complete, and Chinese language customers will be capable of watch it on a number of platforms together with the Nio App, its WeChat account, and Tencent Information platforms.
He Xiaopeng, chairman and CEO of Xpeng (NYSE: XPEV), retweeted Li’s Weibo publish with a form reminder that Li ought to put together an extra-large cup of espresso, as that is speculated to be the longest stay broadcast about EV vary.
Nio unveiled the 150-kWh semi-solid-state battery pack when it unveiled its flagship sedan, the Nio ET7, on January 9, 2021 on the Nio Day 2020 occasion.
The battery pack has gone by means of a number of delays during the last nearly 3 years and has not been formally made accessible to this point. Nio might be holding Nio Day 2023 on December 23, the place an up to date timeline on when the battery pack might be accessible is more likely to be introduced.
The semi-solid battery’s cell provider is Beijing WeLion New Power Know-how, which started delivering the cells, which have an power density of 360 Wh/kg, to Nio on June 30.
Previous to that, Nio filed with China’s industrial regulator on Might 9 so as to add WeLion as a cell provider for 3 fashions, the primary time the corporate had declared the usage of the battery, and on October 16, Nio filed for the usage of the battery for an extra 11 fashions.
WeLion noticed its first quantity set up of the facility cell in November, additionally signaling that the pack might have begun mass manufacturing.
WeLion put in 0.41 GWh of energy batteries in November and ranked twelfth in China’s energy battery market with a 0.92 p.c share, in accordance with information launched on December 11 by the China Automotive Battery Innovation Alliance (CABIA).
CABIA publishes a rating of the highest 15 battery makers with the best put in base of energy batteries in its month-to-month report, and that was the primary time WeLion has been one of many prime 15 within the general market.
It is price noting that the semi-solid battery pack could have a excessive value as a result of new expertise.
The 150-kWh pack prices nearly as a lot as an ET5 sedan, Nio co-founder and president Qin Lihong stated February 11 at a consumer occasion in Changzhou, Jiangsu province.
Nevertheless, a key benefit for Nio is that the automobiles assist battery swap, which permits homeowners to lease the battery on an as-needed, short-term foundation. This enables homeowners to expertise the lengthy vary without having to hold an costly battery pack on a regular basis.
Nio’s semi-solid-state battery provider WeLion sees 1st main installations in Nov