up to 1,000 km CLTC range

up to 1,000 km CLTC range


There is little to say about the advantages offered by electric motors: they are compact, silent, powerful and perform all their torque at once. However, there is still a lot of work to be done on the battery, BYD in particular is working on one Battery Blade with 1,000 kilometers of CLTC autonomy.

We know what many consumers think about the hyperbolic freedom announced by this or that brand, however the truth is that the industry is moving towards four-digit freedom, with a Chinese company that has already created cells of 720 Wh/kg. With such a density, with the current measurements we can – possibly – even reach 2,000 kilometers with one battery pack, however, we have already said that the industry does not work for this but to reduce the weight and size of batteries of 400-500-600 kilometers. The aforementioned cells from Thai New Energy are solid state and it will still take time to have them in series models, currently BYD is ready to launch The second generation of Battery Blade.

The original Battery Blades launched in 2020 and, in a way, changed the industry with their cutting-edge technology. After all, if BYD, which has been producing batteries for almost 30 years, could not do it … We are talking about batteries capable of having 140 Wh of energy per kilogram, a figure that for many years has been 150 Wh. / kilo. Now, with the second generation developed by the BYD subsidiary Get the Dreamthe Chinese giant aims 190 Wh/kg.

Wang Chuanfu, Chairman of BYD, assured that these new batteries will be shorter and lighter, while maintaining the same autonomy as the previous ones. Second Fast technology, these new batteries can target a CLTC of 1,000 km, a Chinese standard that is more permissive than the European one. For WLTP we can be around 700-800 km, still a huge amount. Although it is far from the number of solid state batteries, BYD’s new Blade Battery will definitely be the one the densest LFP battery on the market. It would be very interesting to see one of these batteries installed in the rear wheel drive of the Tesla Model 3, which already uses LFP batteries and is much better…

However, the 2024 Tesla Model 3 Long Range that we tested does not have LFP batteries, it still uses NMC batteries.