Project Summary

Developing a thermal management approach to optimise the charge and discharge of our e-BRIC solution to extend the battery pack life.

Project Achievements

Within this T-TRIG project Alp Technologies proposed to develop a novel thermal management system by monitoring temperature at the cell level in its battery bike system (BRIC) in order to prolong overall battery pack life and maximize individual cell utilization before disposal.

Conclusions

This project has enabled Alp Technologies to carry out the necessary design developments and lab experiments to validate the positive impacts of adding individual temperature sensors to its battery pack system. Utilizing the temperature sensors data with our in-house AI have shown great potentials to enhance performance, safety and reduce operation and maintenance costs. In total, the combination of this innovation with our existing battery system made of used cells has the potential to reduce existing energy storage cost by up to 80%.

An additional and unexpected impact emerged from this project where this system is found to be highly suitable for applications where high performance and accuracy are needed for batteries in electric vehicles, aeronautics (e.g. planes and drones) and space vehicles.