This is the first car with LFP 2.0 battery Shenxing
CATL has announced that the first production vehicle to be equipped with Shenxing's new LFP 2.0 battery will be the Exeed Exlantix ET. When tested in extremely cold temperatures at −20°C in Inner Mongolia, the electric SUV charged to 80% in 24 minutes. According to Exeed, under normal conditions at a temperature of 25 °C can travel 400 km after a 10-minute charge.
It was previously reported that Chery had already released the first such car back in January. Now it has become known that it will be sold under the Exeed Exlantix brand, in addition, new details and photos have appeared.
The Shenxing Superfast Charging battery was introduced last August during the CATL conference. It can provide a range of up to 700 km. According to CATL, despite the low-cost lithium iron phosphate (LFP) structure, it supports 4C charging, becoming the world's first 4C LFP battery. The multiplier next to C indicates how many times the battery can be charged in an hour. So 4C means the battery can be fully charged in 15 minutes or four times per hour.
CATL previously announced that Chery Exeed will be the first to offer a commercially available vehicle with a Shenxing battery inside. Exeed carried out a number of winter tests, such as freezing the entire car for 24 hours at −30°C and placing the battery in ice water for one hour, then drying it and installing it back on the car, after which the battery continued to work properly .
Exlantix ET will be available with batteries with capacities of 60, 82 and 100 kW·h. It is built on Chery's platform called E0X, which also underpins the Luxeed S7 from Chery and Huawei. Dimensions are 4955 × 1975 × 1698 mm with a wheelbase of 3000 mm, like Li Auto L6 and Aito M7.
CATL has announced that its vehicles equipped with the next generation Shenxing LFP battery will be available worldwide in Europe, the Middle East and North America. Among her confirmed clients — Chery, Avatr and Neta.