CATL Unveils Panshi Chassis: No Fire or Explosion in 120km/h Frontal Collision, Avitar Announces First Launch
CATL held a chassis new product launch event in Shanghai today, unveiling the Panshi Chassis.
Yang Hanbing, General Manager of CATL (Shanghai) Intelligent Technology, stated that the CATL Panshi Chassis is the CIIC ultra-high safety flagship version, achieving ultra-high safety with no fire or explosion in a 120km/h frontal collision while electrified.
The Panshi Chassis is a CIIC integrated intelligent chassis centered around electricity, focusing on intelligence and safety, and positioned as an efficient and safe base. CATL introduced that vehicles built on this chassis can absorb 15% of collision energy in the upper body, while the more robust CIIC chassis absorbs 85% of collision energy.
In the actual test by China Automotive Technology and Research Center, the test vehicle equipped with this chassis, at a speed of 120km/h, can achieve no fire or explosion in a 100% frontal impact.
Additionally, CATL conducted a 120km/h frontal column collision test, where the bearing area of the column collision is only 1/6 of the frontal collision, and the collision damage is more severe at the same speed, and the unit area collision pressure at 120km/h column collision is 21 times that of 56km/h.
CATL's Panshi Chassis and the prototype vehicle equipped with this chassis both successfully passed the 120km/h frontal column collision test, with high voltage cut off at the moment of impact, and no fire or explosion after being stationary for 12 hours.
CATL introduced that the Panshi Chassis adopts a "three-dimensional biomimetic turtle shell structure", with the vehicle body and energy compartment integrated; the "aircraft carrier-style arrestor structure" allows the vehicle to decelerate step by step, reducing the intrusion speed; "submarine-grade heat-formed steel and aerospace-grade aluminum alloy" can improve the support strength of the chassis; and there is also a "high toughness insulating film" that can absorb the collision energy inside the battery cells.
Avitar announced in March this year that it would become the first new energy brand in the world to adopt CATL's Panshi Chassis.
At today's launch event, Avitar's CEO Chen Zhuo also spoke, emphasizing this first launch cooperation.
