Xiaomi has already assumed that it will play a significant role in the electric car market in a few years. The smartphone segment will continue to be in the line of products developed by the manufacturer, in addition to others, such as home automation, it will instead be in the electric vehicle segment in which it wants to distinguish itself.
The Pilot Technology autonomous driving system was one of Xiaomi’s big announcements this year, and this year-end is completed with another novelty: a battery patent with an innovative cooling system for electric vehicles.
Xiaomi is betting on the electric vehicle segment
Xiaomi is working on an electric car of its own and surprised the world this year with an impressive self-driving system called Pilot Technology. In this journey into the segment, a new patent now appears, which is also innovative.
According to documents released by the Chinese patent authority, Xiaomi has come up with some clever ideas to cool electric vehicle batteries. This has been a major problem in EVs, and thermal management is often a concern for performance, fast charging, battery health and even safety.
The patent is described in Chinese, but from what we understand, the refrigerant will flow between each row of cells and be discharged on both sides. Each row is cooled by two liquid cooling plates which cover a larger area and provide better coolant flow.
Xiaomi therefore promises better performance, efficiency, safety, longer life and battery health, as well as faster charging.
Like other patents, this too could only be a project on the table, from which only time and trials will be able to evaluate its actual feasibility in an electric vehicle.
