NIO finds early success with solid-state batteries, files to expand the tech to 11 more EVs

Electrek ^ | Oct 16 2023 - 7:15 am PT | Scooter Doll

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Less than six months after filing with the Chinese government to add solid-state batteries to three of its EV models, NIO has just filed to include the potentially game-changing technology to 11 more. With dozens of EVs powered by the lighter, safer, and more energy-dense cells, the automotive landscape overseas could soon look very different in that drivers can go further and charge faster.

As one of the leading EV automakers in China, NIO ($NIO) is continuing to push innovation to its current limit, at least in terms of range and charge speeds. The company has been leveraging its relationship with solid-state battery developer WeLion for years, and the public is now starting to see the fruits of that relationship begin to blossom into bonafide EV models.

When NIO first unveiled its ET7 sedan back in January of 2021, it also showcased a new 150 kWh solid-state pack developed with WeLion, vowing to eventually implement the technology in its vehicles.

Nearly a year ago, WeLion was touting its first solid-state cells rolling off its assembly lines in China, bringing the prospect of longer-range NIO EVs (or any EVs for that matter) one step closer to reality. This past May, a filing by NIO with China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology revealed the automaker was finally putting the regulations in place to sell EVs with the advanced batteries as early as the summer of 2023.

Well, that hasn’t happened just yet, but it appears closer than ever now that NIO has just submitted an additional filing to implement solid-state packs into nearly a dozen more of its EVs. Here’s the latest.

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[EVO X]

LOL. You do raise a good point. That model doesn’t work in flyover country...

[steve86]

NDB, or Nano Diamond Battery, is an innovative energy generation and storage concept that envisions redefining and potentially revolutionizing the battery as we know it

Its potential for long-lasting properties and extended longevity is envisioned through the conversion of radioactive decay energy from nuclear waste into usable energy.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Build them like Elon Musk is building SpaceX rockets!"

Exactly what the "small modular" concept is all about. Most are designed to fit in a standard shipping container, be trucked to the site, and offloaded into a pre-prepped modular receptacle.

[Blood of Tyrants]

If we started building new powerplants today, we still wouldn’t have the capacity by 2050.

[rlmorel]

I am wholly enthusiastic about this kind of thing...I have been a proponent of pebble bed reactors, because I believe they are safe and scalable...they could be used for municipal power plants for small towns, etc.

And because it could be placed closer to where the energy is used by consumers and industry, there is less energy waste that is inherent in sending electricity over the high voltage power lines long distances.

My analysis of that technology tells me it is completely feasible.

I think we are of a like mind on this.

[Drago]

Try this one: https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/what-is-solid-state-battery-for-electric-vehicles