April 26, 2024 
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Hioki is happy to announce the launch of the Battery HiTester BT3564, which is ideally suited for use in shipping and acceptance inspections of devices such as increasingly high-voltage battery packs for electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) as well as residential storage batteries. The instrument, which has a maximum input voltage of 1000V, can simultaneously measure internal resistance and battery voltage.
Recent efforts by governments around the world to strengthen environmental regulations are spurring the electrification of automobiles in the form of EVs and PHEVs and, relatedly, the production of batteries such as the lithium-ion batteries for EVs. The need to boost battery output to provide extended range while simultaneously limiting increases in vehicle weight has made it necessary to increase battery voltage. The previous battery tester was limited in its ability to adequately accommodate these increasingly high-voltage measurement targets (300V); thus, Hioki developed the BT3564 to resolve that issue (1kV, more info).
