New Echandia Core lithium-titanium-oxide battery platform delivers proven safety and longevity while reducing installation footprint and capital costs
Echandia has unveiled its most significant product launch to date with the introduction of Echandia Core, a next-generation marine battery system designed to make electrification more accessible for commercial vessel operators.
Built on lithium-titanium-oxide (LTO) battery technology, the new system has been developed specifically for demanding hybrid and fully electric vessel applications, delivering the safety, durability and operational reliability associated with LTO chemistry while reducing both upfront investment costs and installation requirements.
Echandia Core marks the company’s most important product launch since its founding. It has been developed to lower one of the main barriers to wider LTO adoption in maritime applications: the initial investment. LTO is often highly competitive over the full lifecycle, thanks to long service life, minimal degradation and high operational reliability. But for many vessel projects, the upfront cost has remained a barrier. Echandia Core lowers that threshold. Compared with Echandia’s previous battery system, it delivers 30 percent lower upfront cost and 30 percent smaller footprint, while preserving the safety, lifetime and reliability that make LTO especially well suited for demanding marine operations.
“Echandia Core is the result of focused engineering around real project economics,” says Magnus Eriksson, CEO of Echandia. “LTO has always made a very strong case when you look at total cost of ownership. Its long lifetime, fast charge and discharge capability, and low degradation are exactly what many marine operators need. What we are doing with Echandia Core is lowering the upfront cost barrier, so more projects can access those lifecycle benefits from day one.”
Echandia Core is designed for both fully electric propulsion and demanding hybrid applications, including spinning reserve, peak shaving, backup power and load leveling.
“Echandia Core does not replace our existing platforms, Echandia Ultra and Echandia Robust. It complements our portfolio and expands the market, Some vessels still need the highest-performance system we can build. Others need a more cost-efficient way to access the safety, lifetime and reliability of LTO. Echandia Core gives them that choice”, said Felix Backgård, Head of Technical Sales at Echandia
