Low Cost Flexible Battery Packs for Commercial Vehicles

适用于商用车的低成本柔性电池组

• 批准号: 10007061
• 金额: $ 19.52万
• 依托单位: RLE FUTUREMOTIV LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10007061
• 关键词: Low; Cost; Flexible; Battery; Packs

To meet the UK's 2050 net-zero emissions target, sales of diesel lorries will need to be phased out from 2030\. Manufacturers and operators are therefore developing electric and hybrid powertrains, initially on existing vehicle architectures. However, building a module-based battery pack to fit an existing vehicle structure is space-inefficient, heavy and expensive, and these limitations are holding back truck and powertrain development.Work to date has shown that arrays of cylindrical cells (rather than larger modules) significantly improves the use of available space in conversions of diesel vehicles, optimising weight distribution, reducing cost and potentially doubling the battery capacity.The objective of this project is therefore to assess the feasibility of a new battery design, using cylindrical cells (rather than larger modules) to directly create a low-cost 3-dimensional battery pack that maximises the available space in existing vehicle envelopes.To test the feasibility of the concept, the key project output will be a prototype 3-dimensional battery pack, representing a section of a typical 250-450kWh battery pack likely to be used in a freight vehicle.

为了实现英国2050年的净零排放目标，柴油卡车的销售将需要从2030年开始逐步淘汰。因此，制造商和运营商正在开发电动和混合动力系统，最初是在现有的车辆架构上。然而，构建基于模块的电池组以适应现有的车辆结构是空间效率低、笨重且昂贵的，并且这些限制阻碍了卡车和动力系统的发展。（而不是更大的模块）显著提高了柴油车改装中可用空间的利用率，优化了重量分布，降低成本，并可能使电池容量加倍。因此，本项目的目标是评估新电池设计的可行性，使用圆柱形电池（而不是更大的模块）直接创建一个低成本的3-三维电池组，最大限度地利用现有车辆外壳的可用空间。为了测试概念的可行性，关键项目输出将是一个原型三维电池组，表示可能用于货运车辆的典型250- 450 kWh电池组的一部分。