Marelli presented at this year's CES a concept to integrate separate inverters onto each module inside the battery pack. This setup might increase the cycle life by 14%-18% and increase range by 25%.
This will only be possible by using innovative Battery Management Systems. Marelli stated “The beauty is in the algorithms and trying to manage the cells, to make sure they’re in equilibrium all the time, which is a hard thing to do when you have a huge pack – to make sure every cell is at the same state of charge”.
To develop such a software you will need a flexible and hardware-based testing environment that could be seamlessly used during the total product development process from prototype to production.
Picture: Marelli
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