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Rivian R2 Pack – 2025 Update

July 26, 2026December 9, 2025 Nigel
Rivian R2 battery pack

The original post on the Rivian R2 battery pack was based on the 2024 Rivian Investor Day presentations. However, with the messages from the Rivian CEO [1] earlier this year we are overdue an update. Trouble is the 2024 Investor Day R2 data left out a lot of the detail and so we were estimating … Read more

Categories Benchmarking Tags 4695, 46xx, benchmarking, cylindrical cell, Electric Vehicle, LG, Rivian R2 3 Comments

BMW Gen6 EV Battery Technology

February 25, 2025 Nigel
BMW Gen 6 cell to pack and pack to open body graphic

BMW have produced a high level walk-through of the BMW Gen6 EV Battery Technology [1] and from this we get the following high level facts: Building on the BMW Gen6 Battery System that we posted over 2 years ago. This Gen6 battery is Cell to Pack and Pack to Open Body just like the Tesla … Read more

Categories Benchmarking Tags 46120, 4695, 46xx, BMW, cell to pack Leave a comment

Rivian R2 Battery

December 8, 2025November 13, 2024 Nigel
Rivian R2 battery pack

It’s early days in terms of working out the details around the Rivian R2 battery, but thought it might be worth just seeing what we know or could infer. The Rivian Investor Day 2024 [1,2] gave a lot of details around the updates to the R1 and this new smaller vehicle, but left a lot … Read more

Categories Benchmarking Tags 4695, 46xx, 800V, Battery Pack, benchmark, benchmarking, cylindrical cell, LG, lg chem, rivian Leave a comment
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