BEMA - Battery Enclosure Materials Automation

随着道路和城市空中交通工具在2030年前迅速采用电动总成，迫切需要实现净零排放法规和目标。这要求汽车制造商抓住每一个机会来减少质量和提高功率密度，以实现汽车的性能和续航能力。电动汽车的快速转变已经使用金属电池外壳作为安全关键区域的已知数量，这是当今生产的第一代汽车平台中的关键区域。在这些车辆中，复合材料也被用于解决结构和重量优势。最先进的电池外壳尚未使用全复合材料设计，没有一种设计制造或测试达到给予车辆制造商批量使用信心所需的程度。BEMA项目寻求通过解决i)使用替代材料技术在ii)全自动化环境中优化生产外壳以从可用体积获得最大能量容量的双重结果来实现电池组的这些改进。为了应对这些挑战，Solvay和Airborne正在合作，为下一代电池组带来材料设计和自动化开发的好处。通过解决使用轻质材料技术和全自动化生产系统的孪生结果，BEMA将生产一种金属电池外壳的替代品。

There is a pressing need to meet net-zero emissions regulations and targets, as road and urban air mobility transport moves rapidly to adopt electric powertrains by 2030\. This requires vehicles manufactures to target mass reduction and increased power density at every opportunity to achieve vehicle performance and range.The rapid shift to electric vehicles has used metal battery enclosures as a 'known quantity' for a safety-critical areas in the first generation vehicle platforms in production today. In these vehicles composites are also in use to address both structural and weight advantages.State-of-the-art battery enclosures have yet to make use of full-composite design with none being manufactured or tested to the degree required to give vehicle manufactures confidence for volume use.The BEMA project seeks to deliver these improvements in battery packs by tackling the twinned outcomes of i) using an alternative material technology in ii) a fully automated environment optimised to produce an enclosure which is optimised to give the maximum energy capacity from the available volume.In response to these challenges, Solvay and Airborne are collaborating to bring the benefit of material design and automation developments to the next generation of battery packs. By tackling the twinned outcomes of using lightweight material technology and fully automated production systems, BEMA will produce an alternative to metallic battery enclosures.