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China Sun Group Develops Lithium Iron Phosphate Product for Automotive Li-ion Battery Market
7 December 2008
China Sun Group High-Tech Co., through its subsidiary Dalian Xinyang High-Tech Development Co. (DLX), has developed a lithium iron phosphate product to be used as electrode material in automotive lithium-ion batteries. DLX plans market introduction of the iron phosphate at the end of March 2009, with initial production capacity of 500 tonnes per year.
DLX currently has the second-largest cobalt oxide production capacity in China.
Lithium-iron phosphate is a necessary and essential material used to power Li-ion batteries, and its application in the global Li-ion electric automobile industry is a growing and inevitable trend. The People’s Republic of China is now the second largest automobile market in the world. If China’s automobile industry maintains its current annual growth of 12%, China will overtake the USA to become world largest automobile market with 287 million automobiles, or constituting about 30% of automobile sales worldwide by 2030. We are positioning ourselves to meet anticipated global demand for lithium iron phosphate battery components used to power electronic automobiles in China and other developed nations.
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Our studies show that China currently uses nickel hydrogen batteries, lead-acid batteries and others to power electric autos. Lithium cobalt oxide is still the top choice to power electric automobiles, yet its application is restricted by its high cost, limited resources for materials and safety concerns. We believe that DLX’s new Lithium Iron Phosphate product can supplement the inevitable shortage in cobalt oxide materials, while offering new environmentally safe, cost-effective and power-efficient benefits.
—Bin Wang, CEO of China Sun Group
In addition to the safety, economic and environmental benefits of lithium iron phosphate compared to lithium cobalt oxide, the DLX iron phosphate material will support a cell that retains 95% capacity after 1,500 to 2,000 cycles, the company said.
In September 2008, DLX completed trial production of lithium iron phosphate and successfully met the technical requirements of application after being tested by a PRC state authority. In November 2008, the China Brand Promoting Authority accredited DLX’s “Tong Tong” brand lithium iron phosphate with the titles “Priority Choice of Government Procurement” and “Key Promoting Product of High-Tech Industry.”
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Posted by: sola | December 07, 2008 at 01:12 PM
sola:
I wouldn't worry too much about the posibility that BYD (and other Chinese advanced batteries manufacturers) will keep all the production for the local e-vehicle market.
Chinese are shrewed business people and they will rather flood the world market with lower cost advanced e-vehicle batteries in a few short years. The after sale (and upgrade) markets may also be very interesting.
Let's hope that a few $$ B bail money will be used to accellerate the local mass production of advanced batteries in very large fully automated factories.
Otherwise, we may very be importing advanced batteries at the rate of $100+ B a year instead of Oil, with a single decade.
Posted by: HarveyD | December 07, 2008 at 03:15 PM
While China is getting ready to produce 25 to 50 million affordable advanced e-vehicle battery packs a year within a very short time, does anybody know what will be USA's production in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014?
Will the current bail outs be used to promote local, competitive, lower cost mass production battery packs or are we going to find 1001 different ways to block imports?
Interesting five years ahead.
Posted by: HarveyD | December 08, 2008 at 08:58 AM
Failing to push our own battery industry will be the last nail in the coffin of US light-duty vehicle production. Thank Bush for it, starting with the knife in the back of PNGV back in 2001.
Posted by: Engineer-Poet | December 08, 2008 at 08:56 PM
The US government has already started to single out winners and losers in the US battery industry.
It would be wise to dust off the anti-corruption radar. Start asking questions why some companies are getting more grants than others.
Posted by: Andrew | December 09, 2008 at 07:00 PM
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95% capacity after 2000 cycles? If this is true, it is a pretty good result. I have heard about 7000 cycles for LIFEPO batteries earlier but I thought those were typos.
I hope this is an independent supplier from BYD because I expect they will keep all of their batteries for their car products.