Technology partnership with BMW Group: EAS Batteries accelerates development of cylindrical battery cells.
EAS Batteries has supported the BMW Group’s “Battery Cell Competence Centre” in the development of its first cylindrical battery cells. The round cells have a diameter of 46 millimeters and will be used for the purely electric drive of future BMW models. The BMW Group officially presented the cylindrical cell format in September 2022.
The aim of the partnership between the BMW Group and EAS Batteries was to accelerate the development of the battery cells and thus give BMW a time advantage. And they succeeded.
Peter Lamp, Head of Battery Cell Technology at the BMW Group, said:
EAS Batteries provided us with excellent support in the early phase of round cell development, for example by supplying prototype cells, and significantly…