Blade Battery

The Blade Battery is a brand name of lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery for electric vehicles designed and manufactured by FinDreams Battery, a subsidiary of Chinese manufacturing company BYD.[1][2][3]

The Blade Battery is most commonly a 96 centimetres (37.8 in) long and 9 centimetres (3.5 in) wide single-cell battery with a special design, which can be placed in an array and inserted into a battery pack like a blade. It is made in various lengths and thicknesses. The space utilization of the battery pack is increased by over 50% compared to most conventional lithium iron phosphate block batteries.

In the nail penetration test, the battery industry's stringent safety test, the Blade Battery emitted no smoke or fire after being penetrated, and its surface temperature reached only 30 to 60 °C (86 to 140 °F). It is currently the only power battery in the world that can safely pass the test. In addition, it successfully passed an extreme safety test that saw it being rolled over by a 46-tonne heavy-duty truck. The Blade Battery also passed other extreme test conditions, such as being crushed, bent, being heated in a furnace to 300 °C (572 °F) and overcharged by 260%. None of these resulted in a fire or explosion.

The Blade Battery was officially launched by BYD in 2020. Compared with ternary lithium batteries and traditional lithium iron phosphate batteries, it holds notable advantages in its high safety, long range, enduring longevity, ultra strength and high power. To address users' concerns about the safety of EV power batteries, BYD will only use the Blade Battery in all its pure electric passenger vehicles since July 2021.

Safety controversies

BYD claims that "EVs equipped with the Blade Battery would be far less susceptible to catching fire – even when they are severely damaged."[1][4]

However, In July 2021, a BYD Han EV with Blade batteries was crash-tested in China (car-to-car crash test) versus an Arcfox Alpha-S. At about 48 hours after the test, the BYD Han was producing smoke and allegedly caught on fire. BYD reasoned such to the cause in the misuse of battery coolant. Specifically, the red coolant used was identified as conductive to electricity, in which caused further reaction when the blade battery and wirings were damaged. The standard battery coolant used in the Han is "purple", which is not conductive to electricity. BYD also rendered the testing as "not mainstream, non-authoritative, and not within the industry standard", and wishes for the media to communicate with the company to understand the specification to the car before testing for a more objective and reasonable result. [5][6]

References
  1. Lambert, Fred (August 5, 2021). "Tesla is reportedly going to buy BYD's new 'blade batteries' in an unlikely partnership".
  2. Lima, Pedro (August 10, 2021). "This is why BYD Blade battery is ahead of competition - 🔋PushEVs". pushevs.com.
  3. Shirouzu, Norihiko (December 3, 2021). "EXCLUSIVE Toyota turns to Chinese tech to reach its electric holy grail". Reuters – via www.reuters.com.
  4. "BYD'S NEW BLADE BATTERY SET TO REDEFINE EV SAFETY STANDARDS". BYD North America.
  5. Chen, James (2021-07-29). "BYD Han EV suffers in independent crash testing". CarNewsChina. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
  6. "汉EV对撞极狐阿尔法S后竟起火，比亚迪官方紧急回应" [The Han EV caught fire after colliding with the Arcfox Alpha-S, BYD's official emergency response]. Sina Finance (in Chinese). 2021-07-25. Retrieved 2022-03-16.


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