from chemistry to pack
BYD’s Blade Battery 2.0, introduced in March 2026, represents a significant leap over the first-generation Blade Battery 1.0 launched in 2020. While the first generation revolutionized battery safety and packaging efficiency, the second generation introduces sweeping material overhauls to dramatically improve charging speed, energy density, and cold-weather performance. However, the Blade 1.0 design improved throughout … Read more
How to Size the Battery for Your Forklift Fleet Author: Max Khabur, Marketing Director ENEROC USA A practical guide to moving a warehouse fleet from propane to electric trucks: the benefits of switching and the four variables that determine what size battery the job requires. Why switch Maintenance. An internal combustion engine needs oil changes, filters, spark … Read more
The reference page on LFP’s cathode-electrolyte interface covers coatings and doping as the two established levers. There is a third, newer one that deserves its own look: treating the CEI itself, or the process that forms it, as the thing being engineered. Three recent papers take genuinely different routes to that same goal, and reading … Read more
Compaction Density, Silicon Anodes, and What’s Actually Confirmed Our 4th generation LFP post set out the core idea behind LFP “generations”: it’s overwhelmingly a compaction density story applied to the same LiFePO₄ crystal, not a chemistry change, with each generation defined by tighter particle grading, different precursor routes, and progressively higher powder/electrode packing density. 5th … Read more
What “Generation” Actually Means in Lithium Iron Phosphate Lithium iron phosphate (LFP) has spent the last five years closing the energy density gap with nickel-based chemistries, and almost none of that progress has come from changing the underlying LiFePO₄ crystal. Instead, the industry has been fighting a materials-processing battle centred on one metric: compaction density. … Read more
With so much data now available in the Battery Pack Database it is interesting to look at Cell to Pack Mass Ratio by Chemistry and Format. Note that for this analysis we have excluded all of the BESS packs as they tend to not be as mass sensitive as mobile applications. The fixed lines showing … Read more
2026 Renault Megane E-Tech LFP battery pack with LG Energy Solutions pouch cells and a Cell to Pack design. However, we immediately feel that this isn’t the best battery package when we see Renault’s own description: Thanks to the larger battery, the new Megane E-Tech Electric is slightly taller (20 mm) than before and also … Read more
This is from a poster and shows the Gotion Universal Cell MEB+ battery pack. We have already looked at the 2026 VW Polo MEB+ LFP pack that delivers 37kWh using the universal cell format. This pack has a total energy = 65.59 kWh and using the Usable SOC window of the smaller pack of 96% … Read more
We have initial data for the 2026 BYD Short Blade 2.0 cell based on a shared [1] teardown of a 75.6kWh pack. Specifications Charge Rate – supports a massive 8C peak charge rate. Under optimal conditions with the right charger, this rate allows the short blade battery to charge from 0% to 80% (and potentially … Read more
What triggered the battery revolution: how LFP technology made electric forklifts the only logical choice Author: Max Khabur, Marketing Director ENEROC USA Ask anyone in material handling why electric forklifts are taking the market share from propane and diesel-powered machines, and you will probably get these answers: E-commerce and narrow aisles in warehouses; emissions regulations … Read more