According to reports, the first version of the Chinese auto and battery giant’s solid-state battery, which might have an NEDC range of up to 1,500 km, was tested in BYD vehicles in China.
According to claims that were initially posted on SMZDM in China and disseminated by Electrek, road testing for BYD Seal sedans is currently in progress.
It is anticipated that the pack under test will continue to be evaluated until 2027, when it is anticipated to be used sparingly in the company’s production vehicles. It can be charged in around 12 minutes.
According to Sun Huajun, CTO of BYD, the company anticipates using this battery technology in its mass-produced automobiles by 2030.
The new BYD solid-state battery is anticipated to have an energy density of 400 Wh/kg, which is significantly higher than the present blade battery’s 150 Wh/kg.
Although an upgraded version of this LFP blade battery can achieve up to 190 Wh/kg, it still has an energy density that is less than half that of solid-state cells.
BYD shocked the market earlier this year when it revealed a new architecture that would allow some of its EV models to receive up to 1,000 kW, or 1 MW, of charging power, contributing to an additional 400 km of range in just five minutes.
The most recent iterations of BYD’s Han L sedan and Tang L SUVs, which started sales in the middle of April this year, used this revolutionary architecture under the “Super e-Platform“.
These vehicles are equipped with BYD’s most recent blade battery system, which is obviously made for ultra-high-speed DC charging based on the thousands of 1 MW chargers the company is installing around China.
This would imply that his battery technology and charging system will eventually be added to other, more widely available automobiles rather than only these models.
It is evident that the battery market is undergoing little change even if the wait for solid-state batteries is still ongoing and early road testing is being conducted in China.
This includes areas where electrification hasn’t received enough attention, novel chemistries created for cost, better charging speeds, and advances in energy densities.
Range anxiety and internal combustion engines will soon be a thing of the past thanks to BYD’s concentration on controlling the NEV industry and the support of battery technology.