Top 10 EV BMS manufacturers in China
BMS (Battery Management System), as an essential core component of electric vehicles, plays an important role in preventing battery overcharge and overdischarge, monitoring battery status, prolonging battery life, improving battery efficiency, and ensuring safe operation of batteries and new source vehicles.
In the past two years, driven by the fast growth of electric vehicles, the scale of power lithium battery BMS market in China has increased significantly. This article will introduce top 10 EV BMS manufacturers in China.
| Manufacturers-2021 | Installed capacity-2021（x10,000 sets） | Market share-2021（%） | Manufacturers-2022 | Installed capacity-2022（x10,000 sets） | Market share-2022（%） |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BYD | 64.7 | 18.30% | BYD | 186.1 | 26.4% |
| CATL | 50.73 | 14.30% | CATL | 119.2 | 16.9% |
| TESLA | 48.58 | 13.70% | TESLA | 63.8 | 9.0% |
| Octillion | 30.03 | 8.50% | Ligoo | 47.3 | 6.7% |
| Ligoo | 18.34 | 5.20% | APT | 32.8 | 4.6% |
| Jieneng | 15.59 | 4.40% | UAES | 21.7 | 3.1% |
| UAES | 11.9 | 3.4% | FICOSA | 21.4 | 3.0% |
| FICOSA | 11.34 | 3.20% | Weirong | 16 | 2.3% |
| Neusar | 10.23 | 2.90% | GCXN | 14.9 | 2.1% |
| GCXN | 9.25 | 2.60% | Jieneng | 14.5 | 2.0% |
| Others | 85.6 | 23.50% | Others | 161.8 | 23.8% |
| Total | 354.5 | 100% | Total | 705.8 | 100% |
Top 10 EV BMS manufacturers in China in 2023
BYD
| Established date | 1995.2 |
| Global headquarters | Shenzhen, Guangdong |
| Company website | www.bydglobal.com |
Founded in February 1995, BYD has established more than 30 industrial parks around the world, realizing a strategic layout on six continents around the world. BYD’s business layout covers the fields of electronics, automobiles, new energy, and rail transit. From energy acquisition, storage, and application, it builds a comprehensive zero-emission new energy solution. The turnover and total market value both exceed 100 billion RMB.
BYD has worked in the field of new energy for more than 20 years, and has mastered the key core technologies of new energy, including battery pack technology, BMS battery management system, accurate signal measurement technology, accurate battery state estimation, battery balance control technology, charging technology, etc.
BYD’s car battery has a built-in BMS power management system with balancing function independently developed by BYD, which monitors the battery temperature, voltage, and charging and discharging current in real time to ensure that the battery is always in a normal working state and effectively extend the battery life.
CATL
| Established date | 2011.12.16 |
| Global headquarters | Ningde, Fujian |
| Company website | www.catl.com |
CATL New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. is the world’s leading new energy innovation technology company, committed to providing first-class solutions and services for global new energy applications. At present, it has five R&D centers in Ningde, Fujian, Xiamen, Jiangsu, Shanghai, and Germany, and has a total of 13 production bases in Erfurt, Germany, Debrecen, Hungary, Fujian, Qinghai, Sichuan, and Guangdong, China.
CATL is a global power battery giant, with the R&D and manufacturing capabilities of the entire industry chain, including materials, batteries, modules, and battery packs. BMS is installed in the battery packs produced by the company, and indirectly creates profits for the company by selling battery packs to downstream vehicle companies.
CATL regards BMS as the intelligent center of the power battery system, attaches great importance to the R & D and production of BMS, has nearly 100 BMS related patents, and its products are compatible with AUTOSAR4.0, which can provide mature solutions for global car companies. And it is also one of the top 10 lithium ion battery manufacturers.
TESLA
| Established date | 2003.7.1 |
| Global headquarters | Palo Alto, USA |
| Company website | www.tesla.cn |
Tesla is the largest electric vehicle and solar panel company in the United States, and cooperates with Panasonic in the battery business to produce and sell electric vehicles, on-board computers (FSD systems), solar panels, and energy storage solution.
The Tesla battery management system BMS adopts a master-slave architecture design, and the master controller (BMU) is responsible for functions such as high voltage, insulation detection, high voltage interlock, contactor control, and external communication.
The slave controller (BMB) is responsible for detecting the voltage and temperature of the monomer, and reporting to the BMU. Tesla’s BMS battery management system has a high risk tolerance and maximizes the use of big data to maintain and manage a large number of batteries.At the beginning of 2020, Tesla announced the launch of the “RoADRunner” power battery self-production plan. In February, CATL announced that it had signed a mass production supply pricing agreement with Tesla.
On May 11, Tesla’s battery supplier CATL announced that its supply to Tesla would not be limited to lithium iron phosphate or ternary batteries, but would develop towards cobalt-free batteries. In early 2023, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry of Malaysia announced that Tesla was allowed to establish a business in the country.
Tesla is the first applicant for Malaysia’s pure electric vehicle global leader program. The approval means that Tesla will soon establish a sales, service and charging network in this Southeast Asian country.
LIGOO
| Established date | 2010 |
| Global headquarters | Shandong, China |
| Company website | www.ligoo.cn |
Founded in 2010, LIGOO New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. is the first battery management system manufacturer in China to obtain functional safety process certification. It is a well-known new energy product supplier in China integrating independent research and development, production and sales of products.
It has formed a product system centered on power battery BMS products for new energy vehicles, supplemented by energy storage and other automotive electronic products, and is the largest third-party BMS provider in China.
The main products of LIGOO technology include BMS, aerosol sensor, battery pressure sensor, T-BOX, big data cloud platform and so on. Through years of accumulation in the field of power battery BMS, the product has high safety and high reliability, and provides rich interface resources.
The hardware protection design is reasonable, the software layer structure is stable and reliable, and the advanced algorithm ensures the accuracy of battery state estimation and the effective execution of control strategies, and escorts the safe operation of vehicle power batteries.
From 2020 to 2022, the sales revenue of LIGOO new energy vehicle power battery BMS module products accounted for 93.33%, 94.29% and 96.14% of the operating revenue respectively. The main customers of LIGOO New Energy are new energy vehicle power battery customers or OEMs.
For example, Gotion Hi-Tech has been its largest customer for three consecutive years. In addition, it also includes customers such as Dofluoride, China Innovation Aviation, Hezhong Automobile, GreenPower Energy, EVE Lithium Energy, Chery Commercial Vehicle (Anhui) Co., Ltd., Lishen Power Battery System Co., Ltd., and Henan Lithium Power Supply Co., Ltd.
APT
| Established date | 2018 |
| Global headquarters | Shandong, China |
| Company website | www.aaalliedpower.com |
Founded in 2018, APT Technology Co., Ltd. is a fuel cell metal plate stack/cell module developer. APT is a company that manufactures metal separators, seals, membrane electrodes and other components into Xell® cell modules and supplies them to downstream stack developers.
The introduction of Xell® has reshaped the fuel cell supply chain, that is, separated the “cell” from the “stack” in the supply chain, which simplifies the complexity of stack technology.
In this way, stack developers focus on providing customized services for application companies/OEMs and making cost-effective stacks. The remodeled fuel cell supply chain can realize the optimal distribution of value among various enterprises and links in the supply chain, and become a real value chain.
The core technology of APT’s core product Xell® includes unique modular design, precise metal plate forming technology, optimized fluid distribution mechanism, high-performance membrane electrode manufacturing process, and integrated green sealing technology ECOSEAL®, etc.
APT also focuses on the development of fuel cell controllers and system sub-balance components BOP. APT’s controllers have three characteristics: reliability, stability, and precision. With Xell®’s exclusive BOP, they can accurately control the trinity of gas, liquid, and electricity to ensure stable operation of the fuel cell system, improve system efficiency, and increase stack life.
FICOSA
| Established date | 1949 |
| Global headquarters | Barcelona, Spain |
| Company website | www.ficosa.com |
FICOSA is a multinational company headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, mainly engaged in the research, development and production of systems and components for the automotive industry. Founded in 1949, the company has production centers, engineering centers and business offices in 19 countries in Europe, North America, South America and Asia. In 2008, the revenue was 900 million euros, 80% of which came from the international market.
In recent years, FICOSA has acquired Sony’s manufacturing and engineering assets in Villa de Cavals (Barcelona, Spain), accelerated technological transformation, and established an Electronics and Technology Excellence Center in Barcelona, which has become the main force of the group’s global R&D work, specializing in creating high-tech safety, efficiency and interconnection solutions for the automotive and transportation industries.
FICOSA has also cooperated with Panasonic Corporation at the capital and business levels, further consolidating FICOSA’s leading position in the new technology market.
GCXN
| Established date | 2012.6.4 |
| Global headquarters | Anhui, China |
| Company website | www.gcxn.com.cn |
GCXN Technology Co., Ltd. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Guochuang Software Co., Ltd. The company is the core enterprise of Guochuang’s intelligent software and hardware sector, focusing on R&D and manufacturing of highly intelligent software and hardware integrated products.
It has strong technical advantages in automotive electronics, powertrain, energy storage systems, etc. The products are widely used in new energy and intelligent networked vehicles, new energy storage, special equipment and other fields.
GCXN’s products mainly include automotive electronics, powertrain and energy storage systems. In terms of electric vehicles, GCXN is based on the BMS research and development and manufacturing platform, giving full play to the advantages of software technology, expanding the automotive electronics product line such as vehicle controller (VCU), power domain controller, etc.
And gradually extending to application scenarios such as miniature passenger vehicles, V2G systems, battery swapping systems, and mobile robots in the field of new energy and intelligent networked vehicles.
Octillion
| Established date | 2009 |
| Global headquarters | Hefei China |
| Company website | www.sinoev.com |
Octillion Power Technology Co., Ltd. is a high-tech wholly foreign-owned company with new energy technology research and development, production and sales, headquartered in Hefei. Founded in 2009, the company is engaged in the R&D and manufacturing of pure electric vehicle power system and components.
Octillion’s current main products are high-performance lithium battery packs, motors and drives, and power system controllers for pure electric vehicles, with industry-leading technical levels.
Octillion focuses on the field of new energy vehicle BMS system and PACK integration, and is the largest third-party PACK supplier in China. Until now, Octillion has served more than 45,000 vehicles in China and India with a cumulative mileage of 700 million kilometers. Octillion has two factories in Anhui and Fujian, China, and an office in Silicon Valley, California, USA.
Possess more than 270 key technology patents of battery management, including liquid cooling system, battery hot track detection system, thermal management module, battery safety monitoring method and anti-overcharge technology.
ReachAuto
| Established date | 2015.10 |
| Global headquarters | Shanghai, China |
| Company website | www.reachauto.com |
Founded in October 2015, ReachAuto is an industry-leading provider of basic software, SOA middleware, autonomous driving and cross-domain integrated vehicle-cloud technology products and services. The company takes software technology as the core, integrates key technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence, and basic software, and focuses on key areas such as autonomous driving, intelligent network connection, basic software, and operating system.
And it provides excellent and iteratively upgradeable core technologies, integrated software and hardware products, and software platform products for car companies to face future technological innovation and development. ReachAuto currently has production bases and service points in Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Wuhan, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hefei, Changchun, Baoding, Qingdao in China, as well as Tokyo and Utsunomiya in Japan.
ReachAuto’s products mainly include basic software, automatic driving system, vehicle-cloud integrated platform, big data platform, battery management system and international standard charge controller. ReachAuto battery management system (BMS) is a nationally produced vehicle-grade electronic control product independently developed and certified by ASIL-C. It has been upgraded to the fourth generation.
The product is based on a software-hardware separation architecture, and adopts the NeuSAR basic software platform design that complies with the AUTOSAR standard. It supports communication interfaces such as LIN, CANFD, and daisy chain. It accurately calculates the battery capacity and prolongs the service life of the battery through methods such as status monitoring and abnormal fault protection.
UAES
| Established date | 1995 |
| Global headquarters | Shanghai, China |
| Company website | www.uaes.com |
Established in 1995, UAES Electronics Co., Ltd. is a joint venture between Zhonglian Automotive Electronics Co., Ltd. and German Robert Bosch GmbH in China. The company is mainly engaged in the development, production and sales of gasoline engine management systems, transmission control systems, advanced network, hybrid and electric drive control systems.
The company is headquartered in Pudong, Shanghai, with production bases in Shanghai, Wuxi, Xi’an, Wuhu, Liuzhou and Taicang, and technical centers in Shanghai, Chongqing, Wuhu, Liuzhou and Suzhou. In 2021, the company has achieved sales revenue of 26.6 billion RMB.
The company’s main products include Dafona estimation management system, transmission control, hybrid and electric drive, body electronics and so on. The company has developed a complete series of controller platforms, which cover various types of automatic transmissions such as hydraulic automatic transmission (AT), mechanical automatic transmission (AMT), continuously variable automatic transmission (CVT) and dual clutch automatic transmission (DCT).
It provides customers with high-quality driving comfort through fast and smooth gear changes, and minimizes fuel consumption and emissions. The gateway control module can realize the identification and conversion of signals between various buses of the vehicle and between the bus and hardware.
Including the free conversion of signals between CAN, LIN, K-LINE and K-BUS, and can support KWP2000, UDS and other diagnostic protocols, so as to improve the economy of the vehicle network architecture and realize the integration of the vehicle network.
