dvanced 46-series large cylindrical batteries at the Battery Show Europe 2025. The company showcased its new patented "full-current-path" and "tab-less" design. These designs eliminate all welding points and cuts internal resistance by 20%, allowing much faster EV charging. The batteries feature a thermal-electrical decoupling system with a single-side exhaust valve at the bottom, ensuring efficient heat dissipation and uniform temperature distr...

News  Updated at: 2025/06/04

hicles, and a range of over 200km for hybrid electric vehicles. The Naxtra battery supports a peak fast-charging rate of 5C, with a charging time of 10 minutes from 30% to 80% SoC. At minus 40 degrees Celsius, more than 90% of its capacity can be retained. In terms of safety, the battery eliminates thermal runaway risks from the material level and will not catch fire or explode even if penetrated or sawn off. The 2nd-generation Shenxing Superfast...

News  Updated at: 2025/04/28

Hyundai Mobis develops EV battery system with built-in fire extinguishing feature Hyundai Mobis Ltd. (Hyundai Mobis) announced that it has developed a new battery system that prevents thermal runaway within batteries. This technology puts out fire immediately by spraying a fire extinguishing agent when a battery cell catches fire. That can prevent heat from being transferred to adjacent cells, causing thermal runaway. The battery system developed...

News  Updated at: 2025/04/18

asingly stringent environmental regulations. Its chemically cross-linked molecular structure ensures the entropy elasticity, maintaining its shape during the cyclical volume change of the battery cells under load. This prevents electrolyte leakage and contamination, outperforming thermoplastics in thermal runaway conditions. When used in customer projects, the new material demonstrated a tenfold improvement in battery cell leakage rates compared...

News  Updated at: 2025/04/11

urer, SK Enmove Co., Ltd. This technology is a system that circulates an insulating cooling fluid inside the battery pack to dissipate heat. It controls temperature rise more efficiently than air-based or liquid-based methods. It keeps the battery cell temperature below a certain level and prevents thermal runaway, significantly reducing the risk of fire or explosion. Moreover, SK On adopted a wireless battery management system (BMS) to the immer...

News  Updated at: 2025/03/05

by Incharge Capital Partners, a joint venture of Porsche SE and DTCP, with participation from existing investors. This funding will help fuel the company’s accelerated growth across Europe, the Americas, the Asia Pacific, and other regions to meet growing demand. ACCURE’s products help prevent thermal runaway events, reduce downtime by anticipating maintenance needs, accurately assess battery health and state of charge, and help operators ma...

News  Updated at: 2025/02/20

ices, the innovation helps extinguish electric vehicle fires as quickly as combustion vehicle fires. A sealed adhesive disc covers an opening in the vehicle's battery casing during normal use. In a fire spread to the battery, a fire hose jet dislodges the disc, flooding the cells with water to stop thermal runaway. This feature extinguishes battery fires in minutes instead of hours, using far less water. Fireman Access is now available on all Ren...

News  Updated at: 2025/02/18

KULR and Worksport collaboration strengthens U.S. battery production On February 13, KULR Technology Group and Worksport Ltd. formed a strategic partnership to advance battery technology and expand domestic manufacturing. The collaboration focuses on joint battery pack development, AI-driven battery management system (BMS) software, and thermal runaway protection. KULR will integrate its KULR ONE Design Solutions (K1-DS) into Worksport’s COR Ba...

News  Updated at: 2025/02/14

e company exported the first lot of composite copper foil rolls to China. It is currently in talks with two to three other Chinese copper foil manufacturers for the first product supply to them. IM’s composite copper foil can effectively control battery heat and significantly minimize the risk of thermal runaway. (Based on several releases on February 3, 2025)...

News  Updated at: 2025/02/10

eat shield components using silicon-aluminum hot-bonding technology and the injection molding process along with JLR (Jaguar Land Rover UK) and Talbros Automotive Components Limited (Talbros). These components are designed to handle very high temperatures and provide excellent safety if there’s a thermal runaway in battery packs. The company has improved the heat resistance of rubber to meet the strict requirements for critical applications. Ba...

News  Updated at: 2025/01/06

m alloy, and multiple barrier structures further enhance the product’s rigidity, making it virtually impervious. For cells, the Bedrock Chassis employs an inverted cell design and the NP 2.0 technology to protect the occupants in extreme cases and free the surrounding cells from being affected by thermal runaway that occurs to a single cell. For high-voltage disconnection, the Bedrock Chassis achieves instantaneous disconnection of high voltage...

News  Updated at: 2024/12/26

Li Auto, HAMRI establish joint lab On December 19, Li Auto announced the recent establishment of a joint lab for advanced thermal insulation materials with Haiying Aerospace Materials Research Institute (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. (HAMRI), an institute subordinate to the Third Academy of China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp., Ltd., in Beijing. The joint lab aims to develop aerospace-grade thermal insulation materials for power batteries to enhance t...

News  Updated at: 2024/12/23

Ceramic Battery) technology features a 100% silicon composite anode, offering 10 times the capacity density of traditional graphite anodes. It enables weight savings of up to 300 kg or a range of up to 1,000 km, depending on the vehicle type. Its solid-state electrolyte is non-flammable, preventing thermal runaway and electrolyte leaks, enhancing safety. It offers reducing charging times by over 80%, charges from 5% to 60% in five minutes, coveri...

News  Updated at: 2024/12/06

r 26, Syensqo announced that it has won the Safety category at the 2024 SPE Innovation Awards North America. The award-winning part is an advanced busbar cable support bracket, utilized in the 2025 Cadillac CELESTIQ. The bracket, injection molded by Grand Traverse Plastics, is engineered to prevent thermal runaway and high-voltage arcing by minimizing cable motion using high-performance, V0-rated PPS and PBT materials.  The upper clips, made fro...

News  Updated at: 2024/12/05

y provides insights into lithium-ion batteries' degradation, and related capacity reduction and increased resistance. The current generation of  “Marelli Energy” BMS platform, known as "EIS ready", has been developed for large-scale production. It features early anomaly detection that prevents thermal runaway and enhanced low-frequency impedance measurement capabilities. By integrating cutting-edge cloud tracking and AI applications, the pla...

News  Updated at: 2024/12/04

models add an 80 kW front motor. These models aim for a range of over 750 km. The battery in the CLA is integrated into the vehicle structure for added safety and crash protection. High-voltage components are designed to meet Mercedes-Benz's stringent safety standards, including measures to prevent thermal runaway. A pre-series CLA prototype covered 3,717 km in 24 hours at Nardò, Italy. For the first time, Mercedes-Benz incorporates an 800-volt ...

News  Updated at: 2024/11/19

vember 7, Changan Auto launched diaphragm-less solid-state lithium battery technology with Chongqing Talent New Energy Co., Ltd. (Talent New Energy). With a battery tab composite solid-state electrolyte layer structure, diaphragm-less solid-state lithium battery technology can effectively suppress thermal runaway caused by factors such as high temperatures, overcharging, and squeezing to fundamentally enhance battery safety. Having passed three ...

News  Updated at: 2024/11/11

te, to a major automotive OEM. This milestone marks a significant step toward large-scale production of safer and more reliable EV batteries.  The breakthrough Impervio technology prevents dendrite propagation, which can lead to fires and offers early fault detection. This technology can prevent a thermal runaway by monitoring the cell and enabling a failsafe in the event of a potential short. Impervio integrates with existing manufacturing proc...

News  Updated at: 2024/10/25

Aspen Aerogels gets USD 671 million DOE loan for battery materials plant in Georgia On October 16, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a loan of nearly USD 671 million to Aspen Aerogels Inc. to fund construction of a new manufacturing plant producing thermal barriers that help prevent battery fires.  While such events are rare, the cells within lithium-ion batteries can overheat and cause adjacent cells to do the same, leading to a fir...

News  Updated at: 2024/10/19

South Korea’s Everchemtech to join stainless-steel EV battery pouch development project South Korea’s Everchemtech Corp. announced that it will join the project to develop fire-safe stainless-steel pouches for electric vehicles (EVs) led by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Energy of South Korea. Conventional aluminum pouch-style batteries are said to be weak against external impacts and thermal runaway. The project plans to improve the rel...

News  Updated at: 2024/10/15