IM Motors and CATL recently hosted a tour of a 'lighthouse factory' to show how battery safety is engineered - from AI defect detection to active fuses - as the upcoming IM LS8 NEO promises all-CATL cells and a new battery-management system, D1EV reported.
Inside CATL's Ningde lighthouse factory, AI-based defect detection is about three times faster than manual checks and cuts human re-inspection by roughly 70%, with every batch traceable across 200 process steps and 700 quality-control checkpoints and a failure-rate target set at the one-in-a-billion (PPB) level.
The IM LS8 NEO will feature a pyro-fuse active fuse that cuts the high-voltage circuit within milliseconds if a collision or thermal-runaway risk is detected, and a new-generation BMS that improves state-of-charge estimation to plus-or-minus 3% across more than 200 real-world conditions.
China's mandatory standard GB38031-2025, in force since July 1, imposes stricter thermal-propagation requirements, and the companies say they go beyond the pass line; the LS8 NEO offers 103 kWh ternary and 93 kWh LFP packs on an 800-volt, dual-silicon-carbide platform.
Source: D1EV / IM Motors and CATL factory briefing (paraphrased and translated from Chinese auto-media reporting; reprinted for informational purposes with attribution).
