Shell’s Triple 10 EV is a car concept, but that doesn't mean it's becoming an automaker.
Its main trick is direct cooling of the battery using a dielectric coolant that Shell sells.
Shell wants automakers to buy the cooling tech, not the car.
Shell isn’t planning to launch a small electric city car, but its tiny Triple 10 Challenge Concept car makes a pretty good case for itself. It charges very quickly, has excellent efficiency, and promises to reduce its carbon footprint by half compared to today's European EVs, but the really important part is the fluid that makes it work.
The big innovation with this one-off study is how it cools its battery, which is completely different from how everybody else does it. It features a cooling system that, unlike in most other EVs, where the battery cells are indirectly cooled, uses a different coolant that can safely come into contact with high-voltage parts.
