On December 12th, the 4th Battery Day of SVOLT was held in Huzhou, Zhejiang Province with the theme of "Bee Mang, Bright Future". Hundreds of representatives from local governments, OEMs, chain enterprises, investment institutions and mainstream companies attended this year's Battery Day to witness the strategic upgrade of SVOLT.
Facing the comprehensive electrification upgrade of the demand side after 2024 and the phased surplus challenge on the supply side, SVOLT released the "Lingbee 2024" strategy at the Battery Day, covering the product leadership strategy, the bee speed service strategy and the AI intelligent manufacturing strategy.
Based on the product leadership strategy, SVOLT has launched the strategy of "global short knife, comprehensive evolution" for different market segments of BEV, PHEV, commercial vehicle and energy storage, and launched the world's first all-series short knife fast charging iterative upgrade products in the passenger car field, covering 22C to 5C applications in all scenarios.
Based on the Bee Speed service strategy, SVOLT is customer-centric and provides customers with timely and prompt services. At the same time, based on the AI intelligent manufacturing strategy, SVOLT aims at the ten major problems of intelligent lithium battery manufacturing, and works with partners to accelerate AI applications, liberate the intelligent productivity of lithium batteries, and greatly improve manufacturing efficiency and product yield.
The global short knife upgrade and fast charging of the whole system drive the leading products of Honeycomb Energy
In 2021, Yang Hongxin, chairman and CEO of SVOLT, said that it would focus on the layout of electric all-domain short knife products, covering full-size short knife battery products from L300 to L600, covering from 16-4C global charging range. Today, two years later, SVOLT's strategic layout has entered a stage of comprehensive upgrading.
The consumer pain points in the new stage of electrification are shifting from range anxiety to energy replenishment anxiety, and fast charging has become a rigid demand in the market. At this battery day, SVOLT released a variety of short knife fast charging products, officially entering a new stage of "global short knife, comprehensive evolution". SVOLT became the world's first to make 22-5C fast charging battery companies, short knife fast charging cells can cover the mainstream passenger cars and commercial vehicle models in the market.
The combination of short knife and fast charging can better solve the performance requirements of plug-in hybrid and pure electric vehicles for batteries. Yang Hongxin introduced that under the trend of high voltage of pure electric vehicles, the cell capacity will evolve to 100-150Ah, and the short-knife fast-charging battery of Honeycomb Energy has a higher volume utilization rate than the traditional size, and also performs better in circularity and safety performance, and also has strong compatibility and adaptability, which is more suitable for CTC design.
Under the general trend of the same price of oil and electricity, PHEV is the main battlefield of head-to-head confrontation with fuel vehicles, and the share of PHEV in new energy vehicle sales is expected to be close to 50% in the next three years.
Relying on the exclusive design of the hybrid platform created by "flying stack + short knife", SVOLT has the most complete product layout in the PHEV market in the industry. According to the trend of large power and long battery life, rising pure electric usage, and increasing demand for charging convenience in the PHEV market, SVOLT has released the "second-generation hybrid cell" this time, upgrading the hot-selling large products in the PHEV market from 62ah, 90ah, and 117ah to 22C fast charging, and "acceleration without price increase" while realizing fast charging upgrades.
At the same time, SVOLT has further launched three new products for the PHEV market, namely the world's first ultra-300km endurance hybrid iron-lithium short-knife fast charging core, the world's first ultra-350km endurance hybrid ternary short-knife fast charging core and the world's first 800V-3C hybrid fast charging core, which further meet the needs of B-class, C-class SUVs and MPV hybrid models with 45kWh-65kWh configuration.
The comprehensive upgrade of SVOLT's second-generation hybrid battery cells will drive the comprehensive evolution of popular models for key car customers in 2024, and will further strengthen SVOLT's industry leadership in the hybrid market.
In the field of BEV, SVOLT has launched two specifications of LFP short knife fast charging cells of L400 and L600, with a capacity of 105Ah, 130Ah and 133Ah respectively, which can achieve a charging rate of up to 4C. According to the plan, the L600-based short-knife fast charging core will cover 3-4C scenarios, and it is expected to be mass-produced in Q3 in 2024; The L400-based short-knife ultra-fast charging core will cover 4C and higher rate scenarios, meet the mainstream 800V high-voltage models in the market, and will be mass-produced in Q4 2024.
In the commercial vehicle track, SVOLT adopted the strategy of commercial and passenger sharing and commercial storage sharing, launched the world's first commercial and passenger shared short knife battery and the world's first commercial vehicle short knife standard box, and based on the commercial vehicle short knife battery cell, launched the world's first commercial storage integrated battery pack - Basalt. This product adopts a high-safety short-knife battery cell, with a higher degree of integration, reducing the number of parts by about 15%, further reducing the cost, and at the same time, it can also achieve acupuncture without smoke, and can realize the intelligent call of different amounts of electricity according to the scene, so as to meet the interconnection and interchange of mainstream vehicle enterprises and energy storage enterprises in different application scenarios.
In the energy storage track, SVOLT has released a new iteration of flying stack short knife energy storage battery based on the safer solution of "flying stack + short knife", including 350Ah flying stack short knife energy storage special cells with unchanged size and upgraded system and 710ah flying stack short knife energy storage cells with thickened size, which have the advantages of high capacity and low cost, as well as three long-life system energy storage cells with a capacity of 310ah, 330ah and 660ah, as well as the world's first 6MWH-20 foot container.
In terms of cutting-edge technology layout, SVOLT has released the world's first 350km+ endurance short-knife sodium-ion battery and the world's first short-knife energy storage sodium-ion battery, which have completed all reliability tests and have outstanding advantages in low-temperature performance.
In addition, SVOLT Energy Jelly Battery ushered in a new generation and launched the world's first prismatic semi-solid-state battery - the second-generation jelly battery, which adopts the second-generation jelly electrolyte technology and integrated composite cathode technology, breaks through the expansion bottleneck of high-nickel silicon-doped system in square shell, and has significantly improved compared with liquid ternary in terms of safety and energy density, and has completed the development of a sample.
AI intelligent manufacturing bee speed service quickly respond to market demand
Under the wave of full electrification, to cope with the rapid iteration needs of downstream and realize the rapid and comprehensive evolution of its own products, it is necessary to match it with strong manufacturing capabilities and customer-centric service speed.
Through strategic cooperation with partners such as Intel, Siemens, Rockwell, Tsinghua University, Eston, China Telecom, and Dr. Octopus, the "Liberation of Lithium Battery Intelligent Productivity Alliance" was established to focus on the application and implementation of big data, large computing power, and large models in lithium battery intelligent manufacturing.
On the R&D side, SVOLT released the first large-scale model application in the new energy industry, using a general large-scale model + lithium battery professional model for sample generation, intelligent labeling and general development, and more empowering the R&D and production of lithium batteries.
On the production side, the "Hui" algorithm jointly developed by SVOLT and Tsinghua University can intelligently improve the performance of the pole piece, and achieve the world's leading cell capacity** and cell AI intelligent sorting.
SVOLT's goal is to increase the comprehensive yield rate of production line equipment to more than 99%, increase the production line human efficiency by 60%, and increase the OEE of the whole line to more than 80%.
According to the plan, SVOLT will use AI to empower more than 100 scenarios in the production and manufacturing of power batteries, and so far, it has been applied in 30+ scenarios.
In terms of Bee Speed Service, SVOLT adheres to the customer-centric values, is close to customers, responds quickly to customer needs, and realizes the double improvement of physical quality and service quality.
The product leadership strategy of "global short knife, comprehensive evolution" released at this battery day, superimposed on SVOLT's AI intelligent manufacturing advantages and bee speed service strategy, can enable SVOLT to quickly respond to the evolution speed of downstream customers' products in manufacturing, products and customer service, and continuously iterate its own short knife products in various market segments to meet the differentiated needs of customers.
In the future, SVOLT will flatten the manufacturing and R&D costs through the large-scale advantages of the global short knife, so as to cope with the upcoming more fierce market competition.