Xiaomi unveils “Dragonscale” EV battery with CALB, Sunwoda, offers free Skynomad SUV in case of fire Xiaomi has announced a new “Dragonscale” (Longjia) battery for its Skynomad SUV models. Developed in partnership with CALB and Sunwoda, the tech giant is offering a lifetime safety guarantee for the new battery, covering spontaneous combustion and post-collision fires. Xiaomi’s guarantees Li Xiaoshuang, vice-CEO of Xiaomi’s automotive arm, says the Dragonscale battery far exceeds China’s national standards for cycle life, thanks to strict raw-material vetting and optimised manufacturing and design. In the case of self-ignition due to quality defects, Xiaomi is offering a free car of equal specification and trim level as compensation. The tech giant is also covering battery fires caused by collisions or underbody damage, pledging to cover the difference between insurance payouts and the car’s pre-loss market value. In the fine print, Xiaomi says the safety guarantees apply only to non-commercial first-owner cars, which rules out rideshare drivers, rental cars, and pre-owned vehicles. Owners must also subscribe to Xiaomi’s connected vehicle services and service their cars at official Xiaomi centres. What’s new with the Dragonscale battery Beyond cycle life, Xiaomi claims the Dragonscale battery exceeds China’s national standards in other areas. It says Dragonscale packs feature high-voltage isolators with millisecond-level switching times and redundant insulation materials. The battery also comes with a Xiaomi-developed “Cloud BMS” (battery management system), which claims to monitor cell condition with “cloud-based AI inspectors continuously”. Xiaomi asserts that the BMS samples cell data 10 times more frequently than the national standard, with 3 times the data size. Xiaomi says that all these measures allow the Dragonscale battery to react to incidents or failures in milliseconds. In high-temperature (55 °C) and full SoC (state of charge) testing, the tech giant claims that individual cell fires will not spread