CATL has launched a battery pack with Yutong Bus Co to power commercial vehicles like buses and trucks. Yutong said the new battery packs will be used in upcoming electric vehicles and that the new long-lasting EV battery has zero degradation through the first 1,000 cycles.
The new EV battery pack, made with CATL, has a 932,000 mile (1.5 million km), 15-year warranty. Yutong calls the long-life battery an industry first. The bus manufacturer introduced another battery with a 10-year and 621,000 mile (1 million km) lifespan.
Source: Electrek: Read The Article
PSR Analysis: Given that you can get 500k KM batteries today, it makes one wonder why we need 1.5m km batteries and are they just an over-engineered product mixed with marketing hype. Most vehicle don’t ever achieve 500,000 km before the vehicle itself begins to deteriorate. PSR
Guy Youngs is Forecast & Adoption Lead at Power Systems Research
