#CelltoPack #Battery #ElectricVehicle
#Battery 'Research is mainly about the #chemistry, #physics or #mathematic #modelling? Wrong! Today, it is often up to #engineers (#Engineering) whether an #electric #vehicle #EV can go for more than 1.000 #kilometers, #charge in 15 minutes... or not! #Modules and #packs can be constructed in so many different ways: Nowadays, #automotive #OEM get to choose from hundreds of different #parameters in order to reach their desired #battery #design.
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Today, we are talking to #James #Eaton. He is the CEO of a British tier one #battery #pack company, named #Ionetic. His company manufactures #packs, #modules and #designs custom-made solutions for minor #automotive #OEMs. James Eaton spent four years working in #battery #pack research at #Imperial #College #London. Ionetic‘s goal is to „help #automotive #companies make the #electrification #transition with great #engineering solutions at a #price point they can afford."
#Ionetic uses its ARC battery #pack #design platform in order to file their customer's needs and #requirements. The plattform then delivers suggestions of #electronic #architectures, number/arrangement of #cells, #chemistries and all other characteristics: Height, width and length. With this approach, Ionetic reaches a huge plus in #performance and a decrease in volume.
Many existing commercially available #battery packs have #energy #densities of around 150 Wh/kg. A Tesla Model 3 for example has a module energy density of 197Wh/kg and a pack energy density of 156Wh/kg. That is considered high-price #battery #technology. With its efforts to decrease unused #volume waste Ionetic states to have constructed a battery module with "an #energy #density of 226Wh/kg." And a "pack energy density of at least 180Wh/kg is targeted.“
"#Cell to #Pack" vs. "#Cell to #Vehicle"
Ionetic's business of "Cell to Pack Design“ is based on not wasting packaging #material and using as much space as possible within the battery module/pack. "Cell to Vehicle (so, filling up every inch of the vehicle‘s body with cells) requires much more #communication between #engineers", says James Eaton, "and is more #expensive and potentially more difficult for #maintenance and #safety."
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