Innovative battery management systems for next generation vehicles (2ZERO & Batt4EU Partnership)

Advances in the design, functioning and data accessibility of an efficient battery management system (BMS) are of high significance when it comes to the integration of batteries in electric vehicles (passenger cars and commercial vehicles) and the general improvement of battery performance.

Proposals are expected to address all the following aspects:

• Predictive SoX diagnostics (based on sensing at cell level) to accurately predict the end-of-life, as well as high connectivity and data storage to optimize the life and general use of the EV.
• Advanced use of physics-based, data-driven or hybrid models in general, considering for example Artificial Intelligence (AI) with machine learning algorithms, model training and self-adaptive functions.
• Secure, real-time and databased battery management to reduce margins in a controlled manner and to ensure optimized, safe utilisation during all modes of operation and accurate classification for a second life.
• A link between the BMS and the ECU of the vehicle to exchange data about weather, temperature, speed, topographies, etc. and detailed information on battery operation, thereby achieving the best possible battery monitoring, diagnostics and lifetime, while optimizing driving range.

Proposal should leverage and not duplicate activities underway under Important Project of Common European Interest (IPCEI) and Batteries partnership [[ https://bepassociation.eu/synergies-and-collaborations/ipceis/; https://bepassociation.eu/]] and link with projects funded under topics:

• HORIZON-CL5-2022-D2-01-05: Next generation technologies for High-performance and safe-by-design battery systems for transport and mobile applications (Batteries Partnership);
• HORIZON-CL5-2022-D2-01-09: Physics and data-based battery management for optimised battery utilisation (Batteries Partnership).

Where appropriate, links will need to be ensured with projects funded under topic HORIZON-CL5-2024-D5-01-03: Advanced battery system integration for next generation vehicles.

Projects should take into account the access to battery information as defined in the proposal for the Renewable Energy Directive COM(2021)557 of 14 July 2021.

This topic implements the co-programmed European Partnerships on ‘Towards zero emission road transport’ (2ZERO) and Batteries (Batt4EU). As such, projects resulting from this topic will be expected to report on the results to the European Partnership ‘Towards zero emission road transport’ (2ZERO) and Batteries (Batt4EU) in support of the monitoring of their KPIs.