Zeekr, an EV model owned by the father or mother firm of Polestar and Volvo vehicles, has unveiled a brand new lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery pack that may be fast-charged ultra-rapidly, including 500 km of vary in simply quarter-hour.
The brand new battery pack was revealed this week by the corporate with the information being shared on the corporate’s Weibo web page in addition to experiences from cnevpost.
This LFP battery pack will supply as much as 83.7% quantity utilisation. As a comparability, a median pack with the identical chemistry delivers round 66% quantity utilisation.
It will likely be the primary mass-produced LFP battery pack that may harness the 800 V structure whereas delivering as much as 500 kW charging functionality.
The mixture of those factories will assist clients expertise very fast charging periods. Zeekr says 500 km of vary could be added in simply quarter-hour, making it even faster than the Hyundai/Kia’s fast-charging claims of getting 10-80% vary in 18 minutes.
In response to the corporate, the brand new battery pack was developed and produced in-house by Zeekr. The product includes over 1,000 analysis and growth crew members and spanned a growth cycle of over three years.
A key a part of the analysis crew’s objective was to make it one of many most secure battery packs available in the market. This included testing for the way the battery pack endured warmth. In a 700 C fireplace check, the battery didn’t catch fireplace even after 240 seconds.
Zeekr’s new battery pack is already in mass manufacturing and can make its debut within the upcoming Zeekr 007 electrical sedan. This new automobile’s orders will open earlier than the top of the month with buyer deliveries beginning simply days afterward 1st January 2024.
LFP batteries are utilized in most of the many in style EV fashions in Australia. These embrace vehicles comparable to Tesla Mannequin 3 RWD, Tesla Mannequin Y RWD, BYD Atto 3 and MG4 51 kWh variant, to call a number of.
One benefit of LFP batteries is that they are often charged as much as 100%, permitting drivers to make use of the total capability of the pack every day.
Zeekr is spearheading world enlargement into a number of new markets, after delivering the primary vehicles into The Netherlands this week in addition to plans for the corporate to IPO (preliminary public providing) within the US.
Innovation in battery know-how will additional assist the attractiveness of its merchandise in not solely its native market in China but in addition in Europe and past in 2024.
Riz is the founding father of carloop based mostly in Melbourne, specialising in Australian EV information, perception experiences and traits. He’s a mechanical engineer who spent the primary 7 years of his profession constructing transport infrastructure earlier than beginning carloop. He has a ardour for vehicles, significantly EVs and needs to assist scale back transport emissions in Australia. He at the moment drives a purple Tesla Mannequin 3.