Sanjay
Gopalakrishnan, Head - Electric Passenger Vehicle -BYD India Private Limited,
said, “We give battery safety the highest priority when it comes to our EVs. It
is a matter of great pride that this technology will now be a highlight in all
BYD pure electric products in our country. This will assure all our customers
that BYD’s pure electric products offer safety and reliability of the highest
standards with best-in-class design and performance. We are keen on bringing
many more variants apart from the e6 when we start serving India’s B2C segment
equipped with blade battery technology.”
The
e6 premium eMPV is equipped with both
fast and slow charging function, making it a complete package for the B2B
segment. All new energy vehicles from BYD will come with the ultra-safe blade
battery. In addition, the company will also provide its blade battery to other
leading OEMs globally, thus leading the electric revolution globally.
Launched by BYD in 2020, blade battery is the
only battery that successfully passes the nail penetration test, the most
rigorous way to test the thermal runaway of batteries. While undergoing nail
penetration tests, Blade Battery emits neither smoke nor fire after being penetrated,
and its surface temperature only reaches 30 to 60°C.
Under
the same conditions, a ternary lithium battery mostly exceeds 500°C and
violently burns, and while a conventional lithium iron phosphate block battery
does not openly emit flames or smoke, its surface temperature reaches dangerous
temperatures of 200 to 400°C. That means Blade Battery is ultra-safe.
Blade
battery passes other extreme test conditions as well, such as being crushed,
bent, being heated in a furnace to 300°C and overcharged by 260%, None of these
resulted in a fire or explosion. At the same time, blade battery completed an
extreme strength test that saw a 46-tonne truck driving right over it, once
again resetting the bar for power battery safety.
Also,
the space utilisation of the blade battery pack increases by over 50%, compared
with that of conventional lithium iron phosphate block batteries, resulting in
significant improvements in energy efficiency and range.
In
addition to solving the issue of range – once a limitation to the development
of traditional lithium iron phosphate batteries – blade battery can also
support fast charging. In short, the strategy of applying Blade Battery will
make EVs safer and accelerate the pace of vehicle electrification across the
world.