> After 2 million kilometers (1.25 million miles), CATL’s EV batteries retained about 400 km (250 mi) of range. Competitor cells, on the other hand, retained considerably less, at around 350 km (218 mi) and less.
> The data is based on 12 electric vehicles, 100 sample batteries, and real-world applications across four major cities in China. You can see in the chart from Morgan Stanley Research that Models 11 and 12, which use CATL batteries, exhibit considerably slower degradation than the other suppliers.
> For example, CATL is one of four LFP battery suppliers at the Zhangbei National Wind-Solar-Storage Demonstration Project in China. CATL’s batteries are the only ones that have never been replaced, retaining over 90% of residual capacity after 14 years.
This is incredible performance considering 1.25M miles simulated and almost fifteen years of service life.
.2% warranty claims for all causes.
There manufacturing plants must be freakishly precise, quiet, clean, orderly places, "giga factories" where they do production runs in the dark, as there are no humans present or needed untill scheduled maintanence is done.
CATL is commisioning a sodium battery plant this year which will very likely be a game changer for several power storage use cases
that do not require ultra high discharge rates or the lowest weight, but where saftey, low cost, and longer service lives are important.
For remote power storage, backup power, and off grid, the integration on PV, batteries and car charging into a standardised system will be a huge boon, settling on a voltage, likely?, 440, for batteries and PV line voltage, that can then integrate with car batteries will reduce the size, complexity and cost of the whole system.Actual household plug voltage would of course be the same as what people use now, but system voltage would be best at a higher voltage for car bateries, and transformers/transmission lines, pv line voltage.
> After 2 million kilometers (1.25 million miles), CATL’s EV batteries retained about 400 km (250 mi) of range. Competitor cells, on the other hand, retained considerably less, at around 350 km (218 mi) and less.
> The data is based on 12 electric vehicles, 100 sample batteries, and real-world applications across four major cities in China. You can see in the chart from Morgan Stanley Research that Models 11 and 12, which use CATL batteries, exhibit considerably slower degradation than the other suppliers.
> For example, CATL is one of four LFP battery suppliers at the Zhangbei National Wind-Solar-Storage Demonstration Project in China. CATL’s batteries are the only ones that have never been replaced, retaining over 90% of residual capacity after 14 years.
This is incredible performance considering 1.25M miles simulated and almost fifteen years of service life.
.2% warranty claims for all causes. There manufacturing plants must be freakishly precise, quiet, clean, orderly places, "giga factories" where they do production runs in the dark, as there are no humans present or needed untill scheduled maintanence is done. CATL is commisioning a sodium battery plant this year which will very likely be a game changer for several power storage use cases that do not require ultra high discharge rates or the lowest weight, but where saftey, low cost, and longer service lives are important. For remote power storage, backup power, and off grid, the integration on PV, batteries and car charging into a standardised system will be a huge boon, settling on a voltage, likely?, 440, for batteries and PV line voltage, that can then integrate with car batteries will reduce the size, complexity and cost of the whole system.Actual household plug voltage would of course be the same as what people use now, but system voltage would be best at a higher voltage for car bateries, and transformers/transmission lines, pv line voltage.