Aluminium for Ultra Low Emission Vehicles (Al-ULEV)

Constellium开发了创新和突破性的高强度铝挤压合金，用于轻型防撞车辆结构，将电池外壳集成到超低排放车辆（ULEV）中。挤压件可以形成保护结构，并且可以提供新颖的热管理系统，该热管理系统可以将电池工作温度控制到精确的水平，从而降低热失控的风险并优化城市循环期间的电池组工作温度以减少能量损失。这在制造成本/设置时间方面提供了显着优势，同时满足当前的立法要求，为定义安全，碰撞管理和能源效率的新标准提供了机会。电池系统的能量和功率密度都通过使用铝挤压密集型架构来降低电池外壳的重量而增加，将创新的挤压形状设计和先进的制造工艺与高强度铝挤压合金相结合。该项目旨在通过颠覆性的高强度铝挤压合金和工艺技术迈出又一大步，再加上定制的截面设计，用于制造英国市场新一代轻型混合动力和电动汽车的车辆集成结构和电池外壳，这将对英国政府的英国车队碳减排目标产生重大影响。该项目将为原型车集成系统和Gordon Murray Design的电动车电池外壳设计、开发挤压组件，该电动车基于IUK CAAHS项目中正在开发的i-Stream车辆的铝密集型版本。该项目的第二项开发将用于JLR I-Pace的车辆集成和电池盒外壳。长远的目标是在英国建立一个生产基地，生产世界领先的高性价比铝挤压型材，并大量使用完全可回收的铝合金，为挤压和ULEV组件生产提供陆上资源。

Constellium has developed innovative and ground breaking high strength aluminium extrusion alloys for use in light weight crash resistant vehicle structures for integration of battery enclosures into ultra low emissions vehicles (ULEVs). The extrusions can form both the protective structures and can provide novel thermal management systems which can control battery operating temperatures to precise levels reducing the risk of thermal runaway and optimising battery pack operating temperatures during the urban cycle to reduce energy losses. This provides significant advantages in manufacturing costs/set up time whilst meeting current legislative requirements, providing the opportunity to define new standards of safety, crash management and energy efficiency. Both energy and power density of battery systems are increased by reducing battery enclosure weight by using an aluminium extrusion intensive architecture, combining innovative extrusion shape design and advanced manufacturing processes with the high strength aluminium extrusion alloys. The project aims to take another major step with disruptive high strength aluminium extrusion alloys and process technology, coupled with bespoke section design for the manufacture of vehicle integration structures and battery enclosures for a new generation of lightweight hybrid and electric vehicles for the UK market that will have a major impact on the UK government's carbon reduction targets for the UK vehicle fleet. The project will design, develop extruded components for prototype vehicle integration systems and for battery enclosures for Gordon Murray Design for an electric vehicle based on the aluminium intensive version of their i-Stream vehicle under development in the IUK CAAHS project. The second development in the project will be for vehicle integration and battery box enclosures, for the JLR I-Pace. The longer term intention is to establish a UK based manufacturing facility for world leading cost efficient aluminium extruded sections based on the intensive use of fully recyclable aluminium alloys in order to provide an on-shore resource for both extrusion and ULEV component manufacture.