JAC Motors, a Volkswagen-backed Asia language automaker, is about to release the primary industrially produced electrical car (EV) with a sodium-ion battery via its new Yiwei logo. Even though sodium-ion battery tech has a decrease density (and is much less mature) than lithium-ion, its decrease prices, extra considerable provides and awesome cold-weather efficiency may lend a hand boost up mass EV adoption. CarNewsChina experiences that the JAC Yiwei EV hatchback deliveries will start in January.
Yiwei is a brand new logo in 2023 for JAC. Volkswagen has a 75 p.c stake in (and control keep watch over of) JAC and owns 50 p.c of JAC’s guardian corporate, Anhui Jianghuai Automotive Workforce Holdings (JAG). The Asia language executive owns the opposite part of JAG, making for one of the vital auto trade’s stranger pairings.
The Yiwei EV seems to be a rebranded model of the Sehol E10X hatchback (above), introduced previous this . CarNewsChina describes the Sehol style as having a 252 km (157 miles) vary with a 25 kWh capability, 120 Wh / kg power density, 3C to 4C charging, and a HiNa NaCR32140 mobile. When JAC published the Yiwei logo in Might, it mentioned it could drop the Sehol label and rebrand all its automobiles to both JAC or Yiwei, main us to this week’s EV divulge. JAC hasn’t but mentioned whether or not the Yiwei-branded style will stay the E10X moniker.
In April, JAC showcased a separate EV known as the Yiwei 3 on the Shanghai Auto Display. That style introduced in June with an LFP lithium battery, promising the sodium-ion variant would release later.
The brand new Yiwei EV reportedly makes use of cylindrical sodium-ion cells from HiNA Battery. JAC assembles the batteries within the corporate’s modular UE (Unitized Encapsulation) honeycomb construction, very similar to CATL’s CTP (cell-to-pack) and BYD’s Blade. The structure can give for larger steadiness and function.
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