Posted on 28 Sep 2022
New Energy vehicle company Seres announced is launching a collaboration with the battery giant CATL, Kallanish learns. The collaboration will be focusing on the supply of CATL's M3P new-type batteries on related models of Seres.
On 23 September, Seres said in an announcement: "While improving performances and cruising ranges, the M3P battery not only greatly reduces battery costs, but also reduces reliance on precious metals such as cobalt."
On 27 August, Zeng Yuqun, CATL's chairman, said at the World New Energy Vehicle Conference: "M3P batteries are based on lithium iron batteries and are not exactly lithium iron. It maintains the characteristics, such as high safety and long life cycles of lithium iron phosphate, and the energy densities of the battery cells are generally increased by 20%, which is very competitive."
In the same month, CATL signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Seres. Seres' Aito Wenjie models will all be equipped with CATL's power batteries.
According to CATL, technically, M3P batteries are not lithium manganese iron phosphate batteries because additional metal elements were also included. Unlike lithium iron phosphate batteries and ternary lithium batteries, M3P batteries is a new technology route based on lithium manganese iron phosphate batteries.
Source:Kallanish
