HD Hyundai reveals LFP battery pack for commercial trucks

HD Hyundai Infracore (HDI) is about to debut a brand new, 35 kWh lithium phosphate battery pack to energy the subsequent technology of electrified business tools.

Whereas the brand new HD Hyundai lithium phosphate battery isn’t technically out but (it can formally bow at Intermat 2024 at Paris-Nord Villepinte subsequent month), the battery pack has been in growth since again when Infracore was nonetheless a Doosan model.

As of 2021, the primary prototypes of the battery have been configured with bespoke battery administration system (BMS) and thermal safety methods, in addition to a versatile design structure that permits the producer to supply batteries with completely different voltages and capacities through the use of completely different numbers of standardized cylindrical nickel cobalt manganese (NCM) battery cells (that’s truly an NCM pack proven, at prime).

The OG Doosan

Completely different variations of the Infracore battery have been in used within the firm’s 1.7 ton mini electric excavators since 2023. And so they’re not alone. HD Hyundai presently gives LFP battery packs in 5.8, 8.8 and 11.7 kWh energy capacities – however these information ones which are set to bow are anticipated to be a lot greater.

Like, “sufficiently big to energy a business truck,” greater.

Coming to an electrical truck close to you

HDI recently confirmed that it will supply battery packs for Tata Daewoo Commercial Vehicle’s medium-duty electric trucks, and introduced that the 2 firms will work collectively to increase Korea’s electrical business choices.

The official HDI launch cites knowledge from market analysis platform, Markets and Markets, that initiatives the worldwide electrical business automobile market to develop from the 529,400 items bought in 2023 to greater than 2.1 million items by 2030.

“We now have been in a position to pioneer the EV market with on our proprietarily produced battery pack know-how,” says HD Hyundai Infracore CEO, Seung-hyun Oh, “Primarily based on such success, we plan to gradually expand the vehicle types applied with our battery packs and extend our supplier base to emerging countries and other regions.”

The brand new battery packs are meant to, “provide a value-oriented and strong answer for firms working within the development, industrial and marine sectors,” according to Power Progress (previously Diesel Progress). We’ll have extra when Hyundai lifts the veil in Paris.

Electrek’s Take

If their sprawling, interactive display at CES didn’t already convince you, Hyundai is severe about electrifying job websites around the globe. Sure, they’re also working on hydrogen – but their concerted push to become global EV leaders is very real.

Building firms like Caterpillar and Deere ought to would do nicely to study the lesson Toyota and Honda discovered the exhausting approach within the 90s: underestimate the Koreans at your peril.