Hilti has shared their special influencer media kit with us, and one of the new batteries caught my attention. Shown here is the brand new Hilti Nuron FLASH battery.
The new Hilti Flash Charging battery is described as being the “ultimate class battery.”
This looks to be new faster charging battery. It’s unclear how this battery compares against Hilti’s other new batteries, which feature higher capacities.
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Basically, it looks like Hilti is forcing a choice – do you want the most runtime, or faster charging?
Hilti B22-260 features include:
- Hilti‘s fastest charging and highest-performance battery, optimized for high-intensity work
- Flash charging – charge one B 22-260 battery to 80% in as little as 20 minutes
- IPX4 rated
Hilti also announced new flash chargers. Does that mean this battery can only recharge on the flash chargers, or will it charge on existing chargers at a slower rate?
What kind of battery technology are they using here – Li-ion pouch cells?
Most professional cordless power tool brands – mainly Hilti competitors that beat them to market by a couple of years – went with tabless Li-ion cells for their highest performance batteries so as to avoid the overheating risk that is associated with running pouch cells at a high duty cycle. Has Hilti come out with a better way to cool their batteries, or is this battery more of a high performance sprinter that won’t endure continuous use.
Charge capacity?
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Do you get the same duty cycle as other Hilti Nuron batteries? Longevity?
Hilti did not provide answers to any of these questions.
November Update: I asked Hilti if they could provide more information, as I have not yet had time to scour through their influencers’ content on social media, but have not yet heard back.
I find it interesting that Hilti says this is their highest-performing battery. What about the new higher powered B 22-290 that they also recently launched? See Hilti Launched a Higher Powered Nuron Battery. What can customers expect when comparing the two premium batteries?
It’s unclear why Hilti couldn’t take a similar approach as Milwaukee. Milwaukee M18 FORGE batteries deliver high capacity, top performance, AND are the brand’s fastest-charging. With the FORGE 12Ah battery, you don’t have to choose, you get it all.
This was all the information that Hilti provided us with. If you have any questions, maybe Hilti’s influencer partners, who attended an exclusive event and have reviews up on social media, can help.
Josh
Typo in your 1st sentence?:
“ Hilti has shared their special influencer media kit with **us**”
Stuart
Thanks! Sorry – saw that when updating some details. Much appreciated!
Nathan
This is still 22volts right just massive parallel? Interesting looks heavy
Alfredo
Im guessing 12ah based on the 260
Daniel L
Curious if the visual cues might be telling the story here.
Their other batteries show the outline of the cells used in their construction – a neat little design feature. Two rows, three rows of cylindrical cells.
This guy’s got a series of parallel indentations on the side.
Six 3.6-3.7ish pouch cells in series~roughly 22 volts.
Who knows.
kent_skinner
>> This was all the information that Hilti provided us with. If you have any questions, maybe Hilti’s influencer partners, who attended an exclusive event and have reviews up on social media, can help.
LOL. Gotta love this. Sorry they ignore this site.
Joe
If we learned anything from Flex, pouches may not be the long-term best solution. I think tabless cells has take the lead, but I don’t know that much about battery technology. Why would you release both, pouches and tabless cells? Interesting to see how it all shakes out and when it comes to the USA.
MM
Are you perhaps referring to the leaking Flex batteries from a couple years ago? If so, those were not pouch cells that were failing. The leaking packs were the standard (cylindrical cell) type. The leakage was not from the cells either, it was a rubber material that was placed between the cells, supposedly to help in heat transfer for cooling.
I’m not aware of any issues with the “stacked lithium” packs, those never had the leaking problem. Well, technical issues that is. They are expensive and they rarely go on sale.