瑞士手表制造商Swatch称，其电动汽车电池需要两到三年的时间来认证。
Swatch首席执行官Nick Hayek在星期五接受广播公司SRF采访时说，Swatch控股的研究公司Belenos开发的电池将通过其中国合作伙伴吉利汽车的一系列测试。
“我们正在将一个测试产品在巴塞尔(瑞士)的Itingen投入运行，我们将与中国合作伙伴吉利测试第一批电池的汽车移动性，” Hayek说。 “但是，我们还需要两三年才能获得必要的认证。
路透社报告没有指明该认证将来自哪里。电池制造商倾向于使用SAE、UL和Intertek的电池和充电认证。
在新闻稿中，Swatch宣布与吉利合作使用瑞士公司的新电池技术。该公司表示，在过去几年中，Belenos子公司与苏黎世联邦理工学院(ETH Zurich)合作开发了一种创新型电池，其比传统电池更强大至少30%。
Hayek说，Belenos开发的汽车电池具有与用于电动自行车，无人机和手表的小型电池相同的技术。 Belenos于2008年成立Belenos Clean Power Holding，由Hayek已经去世的父亲成立。 Swatch持有Belenos 51%的股份。
“它会进行得更快，”他说。 “我们有合作伙伴，包括瑞士的合作伙伴，在某些情况下，我们已经在测试(更小的设备)电池。
在2015年，Swatch说，它将进入电动汽车电池领域，目标是到2020年达到100到150亿美元的销售额。投资者对这一战略认为太过于昂贵和不切实际。 2020目标在这一点上似乎不现实，所需的两到三年的测试和认证通关仍然在进行。
Swatch已涉足城市电动汽车多年。戴姆勒的Smart品牌最初就是汽车制造商和手表公司建立的合资公司来运作。Swatch还提出小型车像手表一样的想法,消费者可以更换车身壁板和颜色。
与此同时, Swatch据说还推出智能汽车的合资企业，几年前它成为共同的欧洲道路汽油机和全电动的变化。
Swiss watchmaker Swatch sees its electric vehicle battery taking another two-to-three years to certify.
Developed through research firm Belenos, the Swatch-backed battery will go through a series of tests with Swatch’s Chinese partner, automaker Geely, said Swatch CEO Nick Hayek in an interview with broadcaster SRF on Friday.
“We’re in the process of putting a prototype into operation in Itingen, Basel, (Switzerland) where we’ll test the first batteries with our Chinese partner Geely for the mobility of their cars,” Hayek said. “But it will take another two to three years until we receive the necessary certification.”
The Reuters report doesn’t specify where that certification will come from. Battery makers tend to use certifications for batteries and charging from Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), Underwriter Laboratories (UL), and Intertek.
In a press release, Swatch announced its alliance with Geely for use of the Swiss company’s new battery technology. The company said that for the past few years its Belenos subsidiary has worked with ETH Zurich on an innovative batter than aims to be at least 30-percent more powerful than conventional counterparts.
Hayek said the car battery being developed by Belenos has the same technology as what’s being used for small batteries for e-bikes, drones, and watches. Belenos was started up in 2008 as Belenos Clean Power Holding by Hayek’s since-deceased father. Swatch holds a 51 percent stake in Belenos.
“It will proceed a lot faster there,” he said. “We have partners, including ones in Switzerland, with whom we’re already testing the (smaller device) batteries in some cases.”
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In 2015, Swatch said it was going to jump into the EV battery game with the goal of reaching $10 to $15 billion in sales by 2020. Investors balked at the strategy as being too expensive and unrealistic. The 2020 target appears unrealistic at this point, with the needed two-to-three year testing and certification clearance still ahead.
Swatch has been dabbling in electrified urban cars for year. Daimler’s Smart car brand was born out of an initial joint venture between the carmaker and the watch company. Swatch had floated the idea of making small cars like its watches – interchangeable body panels and colors that could be customized by the buyer.
At some point, Swatch was said to have pulled out the Smart car joint venture, years before it became common on European roads in gasoline-engine and all-electric variations.
