BattCon - Battery Containerised Test Facility

Project BattCon是一个创新的技术项目，旨在英国试点一个新的电池和电池技术测试设施，并为Lotus提供投资一系列符合电动汽车和储能市场增长的集装箱测试设施的理解。随着汽车和其他行业开发新的和新颖的电池技术，对合适的电池测试设施的需求增加，BattCon项目开始通过为英国电池供应链和OEM提供可用的和有竞争力的电池测试机会来解决这个问题。新的最先进的设施将实现各种电池特性测试，在受控条件下进行性能评估和部件及寿命测试，在新电池设计阶段的早期提供可行性研究支持，和验证成熟的电池组设计，以便在产品中实施。性能和组件测试将包括但不限于容量确定、电阻映射、电流和功率映射，开路电压（OCV）测定和热容。寿命测试包括低电压循环、高电压循环、自放电测定、存储老化、循环老化、驱动循环老化和定位。莲花将提供一个安全区域，配备有经验丰富的电池测试专家，这是一项固有的潜在风险。新技术的公司和那些需要投资额外测试设施的公司可以节省开发和测试其技术所需的各种流程和系统成熟过程中的成本和不可避免的时间延迟。Lotus提供的安全设施使客户能够大大减少开发时间和成本，并使产品能够更快地推向市场，降低风险。

Project BattCon is an innovative and technical project to pilot a new battery and battery technology testing facility within the UK and provide Lotus with the understanding to invest in a range of containerised test facilities in line with electric vehicle and energy storage market growth. As automotive and other sectors develop new and novel battery technologies there is an increased demand for suitable battery testing facilities and Project BattCon begins to address this problem by providing available and competitive battery testing opportunities for the UK battery supply chain and OEMs.The new state-of-the-art facilities will enable various battery characterisation tests, performance evaluations and component and lifetime testing to be performed under controlled conditions, providing feasibility study support early in the design phase of a new battery, and validation of the mature pack designs for implementation into product.Performance and component testing will include, but not limited to, capacity determination, resistance mapping, current and power mapping, open circuit voltage (OCV) determination and heat capacity. Lifetime testing is comprised of low voltage cycling, high voltage cycling, self-discharge determination, storage aging, cycle aging, drive cycle aging and orientation.Lotus will provide a safe area with specialist staff experienced in testing batteries, an activity that inherently carries significant potential risk. Companies new to the technology and those who would otherwise need to invest in additional test facilities, can save the cost and inevitable time delays in maturing their range of processes and systems, required to develop and test their technologies.Lotus providing a secure facility enables customers to dramatically reduce their development times and costs and enable products to be taken to market sooner and with reduced risks.