They unveiled a bmw i3 with a 100 kwh battery pack for 435 miles of range as a proof of concept. If so depending price i expect this would be an excellent way to upgrade and extend the life of these cars prices are prototype prices in the moment.
Two years ago lion smart showed off its technical prowess by designing and building a battery pack for the bmw i3 rated at 55 kwh an increase of about 60.
Lion smart bmw i3 battery price. Lion smart is a germany based engineering firm developing energy storage solutions for oems. Lion smart developed a new battery platform and used a bmw i3 as its testbed. Standard battery packs on the i3 start at 33kwh meaning it has tripled in.
The i3 battery pack is only a proof of concept right now. Lion smart retrofitted an i3 with a 100kwh battery pack which allows the car to have range of around 435 miles of range. Lion smarts 100 kilowatt hour battery gives the little city car a range of 435 miles on a charge in the same footprint as the original battery pack.
Lion smart shows off a bmw i3 with a 100 kwh battery. Made with a total of 8064 cylindrical battery cells 18650 format the battery pack has a maximum voltage of 400 v and a capacity of 101 kwh see the video. A german battery company gave a bmw i3 435 miles of range the drive the war zone.
Are you planing to offer replacement batteries to i3 owners. Less than 2 years ago lion smart showed us a bmw i3 with a 55 kwh battery now it gets upgraded to 100 kwh with 700 km of range. Equipped with lion smarts battery in the same footprint of the oem battery it replaces the company claims a driving range of about 435 miles.
The poc with the bmw i3 is impressive. Using new battery pack architecture bmw battery supplier lion smart has crammed triple the battery capacity into a bmw i3s. A bmw i3 fresh from the factory has a 33 kwh battery which provides 114 miles of driving range according to the epa.