Does Tesla Model S get a new battery with more than twice the range of the existing one?

What’s the most significant anxiety about electric cars?

—Range!

The development of new energy vehicles so far, for its safety issues, has long been a good solution, but the only problem is that the range has been difficult to get a breakthrough, an extensive range of charging facilities, reduce wind resistance coefficient of the whole car, increase the battery energy density and other means is the current mainstream means to increase the range.

And increase the energy density of the battery is the most simple and brutal existence. But at the same time is also one of the most tested battery technology means. After all, increasing the battery density means that the battery volume will be correspondingly higher, the negative impact that the space inside the car caused by a certain encroachment.

But recently, an American battery technology company called Our Next Energy (ONE) installed a new battery pack for the Tesla Model S. The battery’s energy density is as high as 207.3 kWh, which is more than double the density of the original car’s battery.

It is worth mentioning that the new battery pack’s increased density does not encroach on the space inside the car and is assembled and placed in the same space as the original battery pack, which means that the new battery pack has twice the energy density for the same volume!

The founder and CEO of ONE – Mujeeb Ijaz, said that the pure electric vehicles currently on sale are too easily affected by the external environment, such as running high-speed, low-temperature areas, mountain roads and other areas. Which are not friendly to the range performance of pure electric vehicles and are difficult to overcome.

He hopes that a new product called Gemini can make the pure electric car have a long enough range and good stability to solve the user’s range anxiety while also considering the cost and sustainable development.

It is understood that the Tesla Model S modified the ONE prototype battery pack in mid-December in the United States on the roads of Michigan for testing, in the actual test to 55 mph (88 km/h) speed, in a fully charged state traveled 752 miles (1210 km).

This is nearly 400 miles higher than the official 375 miles of the Tesla Model S and is still the result of the actual test, which was certified by a third party.

What’s more, the test team, in order to test whether it can have better range performance in more ideal conditions, let the new battery pack Tesla Model S placed on the horsepower machine for testing, also at 55 mph (88 km/h) speed, the results measured the maximum range of 882 miles (1,419 km) in a fully charged state That’s more than 200 kilometers more range. In addition to sighing at the long range, but also understanding the impact of wind resistance on the electric car range is so great!

ONE’s CEO said that the battery pack is equipped with several different batteries, including high-energy cobalt-nickel batteries. Unfortunately, the mass production version of the battery pack is still under development and is expected to be officially implemented after 2023!

Summary:

The increasing energy density is indeed a simple and brutal means to improve the range, but the test was only conducted in a more conventional environment and did not take into account how the battery performance in colder or higher temperature environments, as well as how the performance of charging and discharging, whether to shorten the recharge time, etc., not too comprehensive. Also, did not tell how high the cost of battery cost is, the range is doubled, but the price?