The invention relates to a positive active material, a preparation method thereof and a battery, and belongs to the technical field of batteries. V ions in the
lithium ferrovanadium
phosphate active material enter LFP
crystal lattices through
doping to replace Fe < 2 + > sites to form
lattice defects, and in order to maintain electric neutrality, the
system spontaneously generates additional free electrons, so that the
electronic conductivity is increased, and the rate performance of the
lithium ferrovanadium
phosphate active material applied to a battery is facilitated. And meanwhile, on the basis of
doping the V element, the
mass content of
iron phosphide in the
lithium ferrovanadium
phosphate active material is controlled to be less than or equal to 800ppb, so that the probability of
side reaction with an
electrolyte when the lithium ferrovanadium phosphate active material is applied to a battery can be reduced, and the cycle performance is facilitated. And the lithium iron
vanadium phosphate active material has two particles with
specific volume median particle sizes, so that a relatively good particle size grading relationship can be formed, the lithium iron
vanadium phosphate active material has relatively high compaction density, and the volume
energy density of the lithium iron
vanadium phosphate active material when the lithium iron
vanadium phosphate active material is applied to a battery is facilitated.