Next Generation EVs
Our Triple 10 Challenge leverages Shell’s advanced thermal management fluids to unlock more efficient and sustainable e-mobility. Follow our journey as we co-engineer with leading automotive partners and push the boundaries of EV design thinking.
Triple 10 Challenge
The Triple 10 Challenge is Shell’s bold new benchmark for next-generation EVs - targeting three breakthroughs that together unlock faster, cleaner, and more accessible electric mobility. Working with leading partners, Shell has set out 3 ambitious goals within a single EV:
Charge Faster
A sub 10 minute charge time
Go Further
An economy of 10 km/kWHr
Drive Cleaner
A lifecycle CO2 footprint of 10 tonnes
Why does it matter? More efficient charging removes barriers to EV adoption and keeps pace with combustion refuelling times. Greater efficiency means more range from smaller, lighter batteries – helping reduce cost and material impact. And by designing for lower total emissions, Shell’s Thermal Fluids are helping EVs to deliver on sustainability across their full lifecycle.
Immersive Cooling. Singular Simplicity.
Shell EV-Plus Thermal Fluids play a key role in providing direct, full-contact cooling for the Triple Ten Challenge powertrain and helping to enable sub-10-minute charging. Our products meet the thermal and friction needs of EVs with simplicity, operational economy and cost efficiency.
Our Partners
Horiba Mira
The engineering and testing expertise helped Shell validate its EV-Plus thermal fluid for electric vehicles, showing it can cool all EV powertrain components and support faster charging, improved performance and simpler design.
RML
They bring advanced EV and battery system expertise to the Triple 10 Challenge. Working with Shell, they helped develop a compact battery pack that charges from 10-80% in under 10 minutes using Shell EV‑Plus thermal fluid
Empel
Advanced electric motor and power-electronics technology helps support electrification by enabling high-performance, efficient electric drive solutions, complementing Shell’s EV products and services in powering electric mobility.
Chasestead
We support the development of key EV components through specialist metal prototyping and fabrication. Our precision engineering helps bring complex electric vehicle concepts to life, faster.
The Triple 10 Challenge
Join the race to rewrite EV performance
A bold new benchmark for mass-market EVs: a sub-10-minute charging, energy efficiency of 10 km per kWh, and a lifecycle CO₂ footprint of 10 tonnes. Shell is co-developing with world-class partners to transform the performance of the next-generation of EVs.
FAQs
There are plenty of cars that can charge from 10-80% in under 10 minutes already?
There are plenty of cars that can charge from 10-80% in under 10 minutes already?
Typically, Electric Vehicles (EVs) capable of a 10-minute charge require ultra-rapid chargers exceeding 300kW. However, the Triple Ten Challenge concept car takes a different approach. By pairing a smaller battery with Shell’s advanced thermal fluid, the system manages heat much more effectively than conventional base-plate cooled cells. This superior cooling allows a higher electrical current to safely flow through each cell. As a result, the vehicle achieves greater overall efficiency and can complete its 10-minute charge using standard 145kW chargers, which are widely available on today's public charging networks.
You’re not the first with immersion cooling for batteries - what makes Shell Thermal Management Fluid distinctive?
You’re not the first with immersion cooling for batteries - what makes Shell Thermal Management Fluid distinctive?
Shell’s Thermal Fluid has demonstrated through rigorous independent validation to have successfully rejected all the collected heat using a standard, off-the-shelf radiator. This proves our specialised fluid can be a highly suitable replacement for traditional Water-Ethylene-Glycol coolants to cool the immersed battery, motor, and power electronics.
Our Thermal Fluid has proven potential to unlock the thermal management needs required for next-generation battery designs.
What are the top benefits of an immersion fluid over other battery cooling technologies?
What are the top benefits of an immersion fluid over other battery cooling technologies?
Simplified Design & Manufacturing: It moves BEV design from “a patchwork of cooling systems” to an elegant single fluid, single-circuit system. When implemented, this can help simplify manufacturing, reduce the number of required components, and streamline the supply chain.
Reduces Cost & Weight: By eliminating components (like dedicated WEG circuits, pumps and reservoirs), the system reduces overall vehicle weight, which in turn drives operational economy and cost-efficiency.
Enables Ultra-Fast Charging (UFC): Shell’s thermal fluid specially designed for advanced thermal management of EVs is the key enabler for sub-10-minute charging (from 10% to 80%). We have now proven this same fluid can also handle all other powertrain cooling needs simultaneously.
Boosts Performance: The system promotes enhanced vehicle performance and allows for optimal drivetrain operation.
What do you hope to achieve from the Triple 10 Challenge?
What do you hope to achieve from the Triple 10 Challenge?
Our goal is to prove to the industry that Shell’s advanced thermal fluids can unlock entirely new levels of performance in EV thermal management.
Building on the real-world data and experience we’re gathering from the Triple Ten Challenge concept car, we hope to partner with OEMs and battery suppliers to share our expertise. Together, we want to collaborate on the development of next-generation EVs that are lighter, highly efficient, simpler to manufacture, and more cost-effective.
