JAC Motors, a Volkswagen-backed Chinese car manufacturer, is set to introduce the very first mass-produced electrical car (EV) with a sodium-ion battery through its brand-new Yiwei brand name. sodium-ion battery tech has a lower density (and is less fully grown) than lithium-ion, its lower expenses, more plentiful products and exceptional cold-weather efficiency might assist speed up mass EV adoption. CarNewsChina reports that the JAC Yiwei EV hatchback shipments will start in January.
Yiwei is a brand-new brand name in 2023 for JAC. Volkswagen has a 75 percent stake in (and management control of) JAC and owns 50 percent of JAC’s moms and dad business, Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Group Holdings (JAG). The Chinese federal government owns the other half of JAG, producing among the car market’s complete stranger pairings.
The Yiwei EV seems a rebranded variation of the Sehol E10X hatchback (above), revealed previously this year. CarNewsChina explains the Sehol design as having a 252 km (157 miles) vary with a 25 kWh capability, 120 Wh/ kg energy density, 3C to 4C charging, and a HiNa NaCR32140 cell. When JAC exposed the Yiwei brand name in May, it stated it would drop the Sehol label and rebrand all its cars to either JAC or Yiwei, leading us to today’s EV expose. JAC hasn’t yet stated whether the Yiwei-branded design will keep the E10X name.
In April, JAC showcased a different EV called the Yiwei 3 at the Shanghai Auto Show. That design released in June with an LFP lithium battery, assuring the sodium-ion version would introduce later on.
The brand-new Yiwei EV apparently utilizes round sodium-ion cells from HiNA Battery. JAC puts together the batteries in the business’s modular UE (Unitized Encapsulation) honeycomb structure, comparable to CATL’s CTP (cell-to-pack) and BYD’s Blade. The design can attend to higher stability and efficiency.