Sunwoda Power has launched its inaugural Technology Day, formally introducing the "AI+Battery: Making Every Battery Smarter" strategy along with a comprehensive battery technology roadmap for all application scenarios. Sunwoda Group founder Wang Mingwang systematically explained the threefold transition logic behind the "AI+Battery" strategy during the launch event.
The first transition involves the shift in driving logic, moving from "experience-driven" to "data-driven" processes. This entails using AI algorithms to restructure research and development workflows, thereby shortening development cycles and enhancing product stability through precise calculation and optimization. The second transition is the expansion of scenario coverage, extending from "single-scenario" applications to encompassing "all-scenario" uses including passenger vehicles, commercial vehicles, energy storage, and the low-altitude economy. Data from these diverse scenarios will subsequently feed back into AI technology iteration. The third transition represents an evolution in value dimension, advancing from "product co-creation" towards "ecological value symbiosis." This approach promotes supply chain collaboration and transforms innovative achievements into shared industry value.
The strategic core revolves around reconstructing value across the entire lifecycle, shifting away from traditional experience-dependent battery R&D and manufacturing. Sunwoda is building battery digital twin models to simulate and calculate massive process parameters in virtual environments, seeking optimal solutions for materials, design, and formulation at the nanoscale. For instance, when addressing the classic conflict between fast charging and battery lifespan, AI can simulate lithium-ion behavior, accurately predict risks, and identify optimal charging curves. This upgrades the R&D process from the traditional "experiment-failure-adjustment" cycle to an efficient "simulation-prediction-verification" closed loop.
In production, AI enables real-time monitoring and intelligent analysis of thousands of control points, providing early warnings before defects occur. This approach aims to achieve parts-per-billion level quality control, fundamentally transforming quality assurance from "inspecting quality into products" to "producing quality from the outset." Disclosed figures indicate that AI empowerment has accelerated high-throughput computational material design by 30% and improved intelligent defect detection accuracy fivefold in production processes.
Wang Mingwang emphasized that "AI is not a choice, but a matter of survival." He believes the integration of artificial intelligence with battery technology has evolved from an optimization option to a survival battle that will determine the industry landscape for the next decade. The ultimate objective of the "AI+Battery" strategy is to redefine the role of battery enterprises within the industrial chain. Sunwoda aims to transcend current "product co-creation" relationships and evolve into an "ecological value partner" spanning the battery's entire lifecycle.
This transformation centers on extending AI capabilities from manufacturing throughout the product's entire service life. A battery equipped with Sunwoda's AI intelligent control system enters a smart "full lifecycle management" process from the moment it is installed in a vehicle. During the usage phase, the system monitors the health status of each individual cell in real-time, using algorithms to predict potential failures 24 hours or more in advance, enabling "predictive" maintenance and minimizing safety risks. At the end-of-life stage, based on precise analysis of historical battery data, AI can accurately assess remaining value, providing scientific basis for cascaded use or efficient recycling to maximize residual value.
This means Sunwoda delivers not just hardware products, but an intelligent energy service that accompanies the vehicle throughout its lifetime—evolvable and trustworthy. For vehicle manufacturers, this cooperation reduces after-sales risks and battery management costs. For end users, it delivers unprecedented safety assurance and convenience, truly achieving the experiential goal of "making users forget the battery exists." Consequently, business relationships evolve from product co-creation to long-term symbiotic relationships based on data sharing and value co-creation. Sunwoda and its clients jointly "operate" the battery asset, sharing the efficiency improvements and value increments generated throughout its lifecycle.
This marks a profound transformation in the power battery business model: the core of value creation shifts from one-time sales profits in manufacturing to continuous service value throughout the product's entire lifecycle. Sunwoda's industry upgrade path is built upon nearly three decades of technical accumulation rather than emerging from scratch. The company started in the consumer battery sector, establishing deep roots in demanding fields like smartphones and laptops that require extremely high energy density, charging speed, and safety standards, thereby developing exceptional "high-rate capability genes" and precision manufacturing capabilities.
With the rise of the new energy industry, Sunwoda systematically replicated this technical system in the automotive-grade power battery sector. Beginning with HEVs, its accumulated expertise in rate capability, lifespan, and safety was rapidly validated and extended to full-range power scenarios including BEVs and PHEV/EREVs. The company is now undergoing its third critical transformation—from battery manufacturer to a "smart energy ecological value partner" covering power, energy storage, low-altitude economy, robotics, and other full-scenario applications.
The comprehensive battery technology roadmap released clearly outlines this "technology compound interest" growth path. Sunwoda advocates the philosophy of "technology from common origin, scenarios for symbiotic growth." The mature "parent technology" system validated in the HEV sector evolves into ultra-fast charging solutions for BEVs, provides high-power, long-cycle battery packs for PHEV/EREVs, extends to long-life and high-safety performance for energy storage, while rapidly adapting to emerging scenarios like the low-altitude economy and robotics.
This model is not a one-way output. Applications across different scenarios generate massive real-world data, which continuously feeds back to train and optimize AI models, making AI "understand batteries better" and creating a powerful growth flywheel. Technology reuse across scenarios reduces costs and accelerates iteration, while scenario data refines the technology, making it more precise and intelligent. This approach builds a cross-scenario, self-reinforcing technological ecosystem.
Concurrently, Sunwoda Power unveiled its full-scenario battery product roadmap, systematically presenting technological deployments across eight major fields from HEV hybrids to lithium-metal batteries and ultra-low-temperature sodium batteries, accompanied by eight new full-scenario battery products focused on industry core demands including long lifespan, high specific energy, ultra-fast charging, and high safety. Among these, the passenger vehicle sector introduced a 15C ultra-fast charging LFP battery capable of charging from 5% to 95% in nine minutes, coupled with an "unlimited ultra-fast charging cycles during warranty" commitment to alleviate user anxiety. The commercial vehicle sector presented a 1.44MW dual-gun charging solution targeting logistics fleet replenishment needs.
Regarding sodium battery technology, Sunwoda disclosed that its sodium batteries achieve over 20,000 cycles at room temperature with 30% lower cost compared to lithium batteries, having been initially applied in vehicle low-voltage systems to achieve "maintenance-free operation throughout the entire lifecycle." The company also jointly released the "AI+Battery" Intelligent Manufacturing Action Standard Initiative with industry partners. This initiative focuses on five core areas including data interoperability and safety assessment, aiming to elevate company-level technical practices into industry-wide standards, promoting standardized development of "AI+Battery" technology and supply chain coordination.