Our Next Energy (ONE) founder and CEO Mujeeb Ijaz recently explained at the Advanced Clean Transportation Expo how their new Aries lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries are made at their plant in Novi, Michigan.
Ijaz said Aries batteries offer a cost advantage over nickel manganese cobalt (NMC) battery packs and provide higher energy density. LFP batteries also reduce the risk of thermal runaway and avoid controversial sourcing methods associated with NMC batteries.
Aries batteries deliver up to 3,000 cycles and can be charged daily to 100% capacity without degradation. Testing in a Tesla Model S last June delivered 752 miles of range on single charge with a 204 kWh battery pack. ONE reports on its website that an Aries pack provided 150 miles of range during a test with a class 5 Motiv truck with a 3-ton payload.
Mujeeb Ijaz:
Our battery company is launching this year these products, the Aries LFP battery packs, a 79 kilowatt hour version, and a 62 kilowatt hour version that go into many different types of class trucks. Class 3 up to class 6, and we're starting to even look at the Class 8 market. What we've set up in this display is an explanation of how we manufacture our battery products. It's all around our factory launching in Van Buren, Michigan, where we're assembling this battery pack in a very unique architecture. It's called high cell-to-pack. The cell-to-pack is 76% of our total battery system itself. What that reflects is the ability to bring lithium iron phosphate batteries to a competitive state where we can avoid nickel, avoid cobalt, and have the same or more range capability in a lithium ion phosphate battery.
