Iveco battery swaps could be the key to electric vans, with cassette-style battery packs allowing rapid recharges and greater flexibility for drivers ⚡
“The system is quite unique to us,” explained Mike Cutts, business line director at Iveco. “We’ve developed it in-house. Our ladder-frame chassis is perfectly designed for that modularity – not just for [battery] electric but also for adaptation to hydrogen in the future.
Cutts emphasised that there aren’t yet any plans to licence the technology: “It’s a unique feature to us, so we’d likely want to keep that in-house.” Stephen Powell, alternative propulsion lead for Iveco, said the batteries have been designed to fit between the ladder-frame chassis. “But there’s no reason, in theory, why they couldn’t be designed to work with other platforms,” he added. “It would depend on the vehicle, be it passenger vehicle or otherwise, as long as it was designed around the modular batteries.
“If a battery can be swapped out, it opens up the potential for batteries using less energy-dense critical materials for some lower-duty applications, and more critical materials when ultimate performance is required.” Another key benefit would include the easier removal of the batteries for recycling or reuse. Iveco already plans to make the most of this perk: it will offer second-hand batteries back to customers as a more affordable option, saving its customers money, and maximising the life of its batteries before they get repurposed for stationary energy storage or recycled.
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