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The Chinese battery maker CATL announced on Saturday that the automaker ZEEKR will be the first one to be powered by its mass-produced Qilin batteries of 1,000 km range.
The deliveries of ZEEKR’s MPV 009 will start in the first quarter of 2023 and will be the world’s first car with Qilin inside while the ZEEKR 001 model will be the world’s first model equipped with Qilin batteries of 1,000 km range with the first deliveries expected in Q2 2023.
ZEEKR 001 (Credit: CATL)
The two companies signed a five-year partnership to strength the interaction of supply and demand and to promote the technological advancement of the new energy industry.
CATL’s Qilin batteries are based on the third-generation CTP technology and feature a record-breaking volume utilization efficiency of 72%…