BYD, the leading new energy vehicle manufacturer has developed a new iron batter product named “Blade Battery”. The news pushed BYD’s stock price up for two days. The release of the new blade battery was announced by BYD’s president Wang Chuanfu at the China EV100 Forum.
The new battery’s volumetric specific energy density increased by 50 percent compared to traditional lithium iron batteries. The new product is like a long bar and flatter than traditional batteries, so it is called “blade battery”. The blade battery will be mass-produced in March 2020 and will be first installed on BYD’s Han series EV. Han EV will be launched from BYD Chongqing factory with a range of 600km.
The BYD source said the new blade battery feathers high safety, a long life and lower cost.
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