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April 10, 2024
TWAICE Vision Summit 2024: Battery incidents under scrutiny
Lakshmi Srinivasan explains the causes of energy storage system failures and fires
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April 10, 2024
TWAICE Vision Summit 2024: Why BESS monitoring is crucial
Miguel Gfall explains how the data collected by the BESS can be used to ensure safe operation.
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April 10, 2024
TWAICE Vision Summit 2024: Emission-free charging at no cost
Thomas Raffeiner explains why batteries are the best environmentally friendly option for V2G flexibility
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April 8, 2024
Improving the accuracy of battery models using the open-circuit-voltage (OCV) curve
The OCV is a key element in electric models of lithium-ion batteries and describes the thermodynamic voltage at equilibrium. In this article, we describe how considering OCV aging is vital when designing and manufacturing electric cars.
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February 18, 2024
Five surprising facts about batteries
International Battery Day is held on February 18, the birthday of the inventor of the modern battery, Alessandro Volta. To help mark the occasion, we’ve compiled five astounding facts about batteries.
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December 15, 2023
BMS vs Analytics
The lack of a standardized approach on how State of Health (SoH) should be calculated and the fact that on-board battery management systems (BMS) alone are not sufficient in assessing battery safety are highlighting the need for battery analytics.
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January 20, 2022
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.
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June 3, 2020
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.
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June 11, 2024
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.
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March 11, 2024
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.
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December 8, 2023
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.
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June 9, 2023
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.
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April 12, 2023
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.
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February 14, 2023
Evaluation of transmission losses of various battery electric vehicles
Transmission losses in battery electric vehicles have compared to internal combustion engine powertrains a larger share in the total energy consumption and play therefore a major role. In this paper, three simulation models of the Institute of Automotive Engineering are presented.