The latest test data of SVOLT Energy Technology's cobalt-free battery

On May 18 this year, SVOLT Energy Technology held an online press conference and officially released two cobalt-free battery products. The limelight once overshadowed Tesla, which is known as a pioneer in the development of cobalt-free batteries, which caused great concern and heat discuss in the industry. At the press conference, Yang Hongxin, President of SVOLT Energy Technology, revealed that the SOP time of cobalt-free batteries is June 2021. "There is still nearly a year to go on the market, and various tests are still underway."

So, what is the current progress of the research and development of SVOLT Energy Technology's cobalt-free battery, can the characteristics of high capacity, long life, and high safety be guaranteed? This will not only cause great concern in the battery industry, but also what electric vehicle customers and consumers are eager to know.

As the first company to claim mass production of "cobalt-free battery", the industry has been trying to keep track of the progress of R&D and testing of SVOLT Energy Technology's cobalt-free battery. Recently, WinAck Battery obtained some recent test data of SVOLT Energy Technology's cobalt-free battery, hoping to take a peek into the actual research and development progress of SVOLT Energy Technology's cobalt-free battery, especially the indicators that the industry is more concerned about.

At the press conference, SVOLT Energy Technology once revealed that cobalt-free battery have three major characteristics: high safety, high capacity, and long life. Obviously, high safety features are the first element of power battery. Without the safety of batteries, nothing can be said about it. " SVOLT Energy Technology's cobalt-free battery products only meet all safety standards in order to allow customers to rest assured." SVOLT Energy Technology also admitted.

From the test content we got, we can see that SVOLT Energy Technology has released the latest safety test information for the development of cobalt-free batteries, showing the industry and the public the SVOLT Energy Technology's full confidence in the safety of cobalt-free battery.

"Before the products are officially launched, our requirements are not only to pass all the tests of China's national standard GB/T31485, but also to pass all the more than 10 safety tests in the European standard IEC62660 and UN38.3." The director of SVOLT Energy Technology's cobalt-free battery test project said.

So what are the results of these safety tests for cobalt-free battery?

SVOLT Energy Technology's 115Ah cobalt-free battery cell safety test results

In terms of external short circuit test, take the first cobalt-free battery released by SVOLT Energy Technology as an example. The energy density of this battery is 242Wh/Kg, the capacity is 115Ah, and the size is 33*220*102.5mm. In the safety test, there is no problem through the external short circuit safety test. From the comparison chart before and after the test below, it can also be seen that the overall appearance of the cell has not changed significantly. "This is attributed to the safety structure design of the cobalt-free cell."

SVOLT Energy Technology's cobalt-free battery external short-circuit test results display

In addition, in addition to acupuncture, the two most difficult safety tests mentioned above are the furnace temperature test (heating test) and the overcharge. Among them, in the furnace temperature test (heating test), the SVOLT Energy Technology's cobalt-free battery uses a more stringent temperature of 150 ℃, compared with the ordinary high nickel ternary 140 ℃ test results show that the cobalt-free battery has higher safety advantages. In addition, the cobalt-free battery overcharge test can also achieve 140% SOC, without fire. The overcharging requirement of the new Chinese national standard, which will be implemented next year, is only 115% SOC. It can be seen that the testing of SVOLT Energy Technology is much more severe than the national standard.

SVOLT Energy Technology's cobalt-free battery furnace temperature test results display

SVOLT Energy Technology's cobalt-free battery overcharge test results display

Some time ago, the debate between BYD and CATL on the battery "acupuncture test" caused great concern and discussion in the industry. The acupuncture test is known as the most difficult test for battery safety testing. Then the results of the SVOLT Energy Technology's cobalt-free battery acupuncture test. How about it?

"Even in the face of acupuncture testing, SVOLT Energy Technology has not retreated. On the contrary, SVOLT Energy Technology has been actively and effectively communicating with foreign European customers on acupuncture safety." According to SVOLT Energy Technology, the company is currently discussing the needling standards with customers. The purpose of formulating is to simulate whether the thermal runaway will occur in the case of internal short circuit of the battery cell based on the actual situation. At present, the honeycomb's cobalt-free battery has passed the 7-layer electrode thickness needle safety test, and the maximum temperature inside the cell is only 40°C.

SVOLT Energy Technology's cobalt-free battery shows the results after acupuncture test

It is worth noting that many safety accidents occur during the charging process, especially in winter, so how does the SVOLT Energy Technology's cobalt-free battery perform at low temperature? In fact, the SVOLT Energy Technology has already conducted rigorous low temperature tests on cobalt-free batteries. During the charging test at minus 20°C, even under a fully charged 100% SOC state, there is no lithium precipitation on the surface of the negative electrode, further verifying the safety of low-temperature charging of cobalt-free batteries is guaranteed.

SVOLT Energy Technology's cobalt-free battery charging result display at -20℃

At present, as there is no third independent stable supplier of cobalt-free cathode materials in China, SVOLT Energy Technology has also independently developed cobalt-free cathode materials. "In June this year, we started to increase the production capacity of cobalt-free cathode materials to 2 tons. It is good to verify the stable supply capacity of the continuous production of cobalt-free cathode materials." It is reported that in order to ensure the consistency and yield of cobalt-free battery products, the mass production of SVOLT Energy Technology cobalt-free batteries will have AI intelligence and advanced lamination process technology. This is the first time that SVOLT Energy Technology has adopted a car-standard factory in the battery industry to mass-produce cobalt-free battery products.

Cobalt-free batteries have always been the direction of industry attention and research and development. As SVOLT Energy Technology gradually announces the research and development of the first cobalt-free battery and related information, it is foreseeable that the industry will continue to pay attention to the development of cobalt-free batteries for a long time in the future and further performance of SVOLT Energy Technology cobalt-free batteries. We also believe that with the disclosure of more data, the industry will have a more thorough and objective understanding of cobalt-free batteries, which will play a positive role in the commercial application of cobalt-free batteries.

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