Utilising innovative battery chemistries for use in heavy-duty vehicles across industries
As the race towards net zero carbon emissions accelerates, it is critical that heavy-duty vehicles across multiple industries, from mining to construction, keep pace with electrification. While improvements are being sought to charge infrastructure and secure supply chains, OEMs for heavy-duty industries must consider alternative battery chemistries to unlock efficient and effective battery use, protect their operational continuity, and safeguard their compliance with incoming regulations.
Using XNO® to maximise potential in heavy-duty vehicles
Lithium-titanate (LTO) batteries are the battery technology of choice for many electric heavy-duty vehicles, chosen in part due to their fast-charging capabilities. However, as innovations in battery chemistry develop, LTO batteries struggle to compete in delivering the energy density required to accommodate long-range, intense use. In many cases, this limiting factor of energy density when applied to heavy-duty applications requires excess battery capacity, resulting in a heavier and volumetrically larger battery than optimal for performance.
Echion’s niobium-based XNO® anode material innovation is a solution to the limiting factors of today’s lithium-ion batteries, being able to deliver fast charging, high energy density, enhanced safety and a long cycle life at levels unrivalled by other alternative chemistries. XNO® is explicitly manufactured for intended use in large, heavy-duty vehicles such as haulage and mining trucks, trains, construction vehicles, buses, and more. This will provide multiple industrial sectors with a viable method for decarbonising operations quickly and effectively, delivering a lower total cost of ownership on a $kWh/cycle basis compared to batteries using LTO and graphite battery anode materials.
Benefits that XNO® can provide to industrial-use vehicles include:
Safe and complete super-fast charging in under ten minutes, reducing vehicle downtime and money lost
Long life of more than 10,000 cycles to keep operations going for a sustained period
Market-leading safety capabilities, even when operating in extremely hot or cold temperatures
Up to 180% of the energy density of alternative fast-charging battery chemistries
A carbon footprint 2.5 times lower¹ than lithium titanate oxide (LTO) at cell level
Available at scale through Echion’s partnership with CBMM, the world’s leading supplier of niobium
XNO®’s unique ability will deliver significant environmental benefits for cell manufacturers with its unique formulation, manufacturing process and environmental impact. Echion’s partnership with the world’s leading supplier of niobium, CBMM, has created a low-emission supply chain and positioned Echion as the first company to be able to supply niobium-based anode materials at scale and offer its materials to the heavy-duty market in quantities capable of servicing gigawatt levels of batteries.
Safe, fast-charging, long-life Li-ion batteries with XNO® anode materials >
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