The Voltt: A Database of Battery Parameters for Virtual Modelling and Optimisation of Battery Cells to Accelerate R&D

随着汽车行业的快速电气化，全球原始设备制造商正在加快开发新电池技术的计划和努力。各国政府的目标是最快在2030年禁止销售新的内燃机，电池的性能和寿命需要得到改善，以加速这一过渡。由于依赖于物理测试和原型，电池开发是昂贵、耗时和碳密集的。对高质量数据、昂贵设备和专业知识的要求对新进入者构成了重大障碍。电池选择、系统设计和老化测试等活动需要数月甚至数年的时间来建立一个良好的基础，并了解所讨论的电池。建模和虚拟迭代可以用来加速这种电池的开发。然而，虽然目前的电池软件平台提供了建模解决方案，但它们无法提供对电池潜在物理特性的洞察。这种洞察力，加上高精度的测试，需要为最先进和下一代电池的市场带来新的创新。关于：在法拉第研究所的研究项目中，能源研究已经商业化，以表征电池的电学，电化学和热性能。该项目将与伦敦帝国理工学院合作开发先进的电池老化测试程序和模型，旨在降低Arrival商用车车队的总拥有成本。集中定制的测试方法减少了阻碍采用模型的障碍。“The Voltt”旨在加速电池开发，同时实现基于能量、功率和寿命的设计优化。Voltt将提供特定的电池数据集和模型，可用于现有的建模软件，简化从设计阶段到寿命结束的电池性能增强。

Alongside the rapid electrification of the automotive industry, global OEMs are accelerating their plans and efforts to develop new battery technologies. Governments aim to ban the sale of new internal combustion engines as soon as 2030, battery performance and lifetime need to be improved to accelerate this transition. Battery development is expensive, time-consuming and carbon-intensive due to the reliance on physical testing and prototyping. The requirements for high-quality data, expensive equipment and expertise pose a significant barrier for new entrants into the industry. Activities such as cell selection, system design and ageing tests require many months or even years to build a good grounding and understanding of the batteries in question. Modelling and virtual iteration can be used to speed up this battery development. However, while current battery software platforms offer modelling solutions, they do not provide insight on the underlying physical properties of batteries. This insight, together with high-precision testing is needed to bring new innovations to market for state-of-the-art and next-generation batteries. About:Energy has commercialized research developed within Faraday Institution research projects to characterise the electrical, electrochemical and thermal properties of a battery. This project will develop advanced battery ageing testing procedures and models with Imperial College London, aiming to reduce the total cost of ownership of Arrival’s commercial vehicle fleet. Centralising bespoke testing methods reduces the barriers that hinder the adoption of models. “The Voltt” is being created to speed-up battery development, while enabling design optimisation based on energy, power, and lifetime. The Voltt will offer access to specific battery datasets and models that can be used in existing modelling software, streamlining the enhancement of battery performance from the design stages to end-of-life.