BEMA - Battery Enclosure Materials Automation

到2030年，道路和城市空中交通运输将迅速采用电动动力系统，因此迫切需要实现净零排放法规和目标。这就要求汽车制造商抓住每一个机会，以降低质量和提高功率密度为目标，以实现汽车的性能和行驶里程。在向电动汽车的快速转变中，金属电池外壳已成为当今生产的第一代汽车平台安全关键领域的“已知数量”。在这些车辆中，复合材料也用于解决结构和重量优势。最先进的电池外壳尚未采用全复合材料设计，没有一种电池外壳的制造或测试达到了汽车制造商对批量使用的信心所要求的程度。BEMA项目旨在通过解决以下双重结果来实现电池组的这些改进：1)使用替代材料技术；2)优化的全自动环境，以生产优化的外壳，从可用体积中提供最大的能量容量。为了应对这些挑战，索尔维和Airborne正在合作，将材料设计和自动化开发的优势带到下一代电池组中。通过使用轻质材料技术和全自动生产系统的双重结果，BEMA将生产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.