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TWAICE Vision Summit 2024 Daniela Rittmeier

TWAICE Vision Summit 2024: AI is the key to a sustainable battery life cycle

Daniela Rittmeier explains how artificial intelligence and data-driven models can be used to achieve a sustainable battery lifecycle
TWAICE Vision Summit 2024 Quentin Scrimshire

TWAICE Vision Summit 2024: Availability of grid scale batteries

Quentin Scrimshire analyzes the differences between ERCOT and U.K. grid availability rates
TWAICE Vision Summit 2024 Stephan Rohr and Michael Baumann

TWAICE Vision Summit 2024: Battery software is the key to sustainable future

TWAICE founders Stephan Rohr and Michael Baumann explain how battery analytics software can contribute to sustainable development
TWAICE Vision Summit 2024 Sophie Solchenbach

TWAICE Vision Summit 2024: The influence of cell designs on battery aging

Sophie Solchenbach shows that lithium plating is caused by electrolyte motion in one of their research cells.
TWAICE Vision Summit 2024 Richard Mohr

TWAICE Vision Summit 2024: Battery health and EVs

Richard Mohr explains the importance of battery health in evaluating electric vehicle performance
TWAICE Vision Summit 2024 Susan Babinec

TWAICE Vision Summit 2024: Rapid Operational Validation Initiative

Susan Babinec explains the U.S. Department of Energy's plan to accelerate the transition from laboratory to mass development
Electric Bus blue charging

Streamlining e-bus warranty discussions

The automotive sector’s transition to green mobility is challenging the bus operators across the world. That was the case of a major operator of electric buses in the Netherlands, who reached out to ViriCiti and TWAICE regarding our Battery Health Solution to integrate data-driven decision making focused on batteries, to avoid timely and costly warranty discussions.
electric car driving through tunnel art night

The Power of Signalling

What is the potential impact of Battery Health Reports (BHR) on remarketing success of the battery electric vehicle (BEV)? Besides age and mileage, driver profile has a major impact on how long a battery lasts. In the absence of documentation of how a driver has treated the battery, residual value formation remains below its full potential.
Lithium-ion battery cells degradation

Modeling Particle Versus SEI Cracking in Lithium-Ion Battery Degradation

This work identifies and systematically compares three different SEI interaction theories, and applies them to experimental degradation data from a commercial lithium-ion cell. It shows that SEI delamination without any cracking of the active particles, and SEI microcracking, where cycling only affects SEI growth during the cycle itself, are both unlikely candidates.
BESS failure analysis

Insights from EPRI's BESS failure incident database

This report is intended to address the failure mode analysis gap by developing a classification system that is practical for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Battery production and testing

Non-destructive electrode potential and open-circuit voltage aging estimation for lithium-ion batteries

In this publication we extend a state-of-the-art electrode open circuit potential model for blend electrodes and inhomogeneous lithiation. We introduce a bi-level optimization algorithm to estimate the open parameters of the electrode model using measurements conducted on the full-cell level with state-of-the-art testing equipment.
Battery development

Mechanistic cycle aging model for the open-circuit voltage curve of lithium-ion batteries

Cycling lithium-ion batteries causes capacity fade, but also changes the shape of the open-circuit voltage (OCV) curve, due to loss of active material (LAM) and loss of lithium inventory (LLI). To model this change, we recently proposed a novel empirical calendar aging model that is parameterized on component states of health (s) instead of capacity fade only.
Holding battery component in front of people

Mechanistic calendar aging model for lithium-ion batteries

In this work we present a novel mechanistic calendar aging model for a commercial lithium-ion cell with NCA cathode and silicon-graphite anode. The mechanistic calendar aging model is a semi-empirical aging model that is parameterized on component states of health, instead of capacity.
TWAICE battery research in front of computer

Measurement Approaches for Thermal Impedance Spectroscopy of Li-ion Batteries

Battery performance, lifetime and safety are highly dependent on temperature. With the recent high demand for power capabilities, heat management has become increasingly relevant.