Periodic Reporting for period 1 - BATT3RY (The first integral repairing method for electric and hybrid vehicle batteries which considers their full life-cycle)
Reporting period: 2020-01-01 to 2020-04-30
PROBLEM
Transport represents almost a quarter of Europe's greenhouse gas emissions and is the main cause of air pollution in cities which concentrate 75% of the population in the EU and account for 60-80% of CO2 emissions2. In this context, only in Europe there are more than 252 Million of passenger cars, out of which 3.78 Million corresponds to taxis and hiring cars with drivers, responsible of 12% of total EU emissions of CO2 and 41% of overall EU transport emissions3. In this context, there is an increasing pressure on the governmental and public institutions to reduce the carbon footprint and the deadly amount of GHG emitted by all forms of transport (40% reduction by 2030). Among the measures lately taken in the largest European citie is the obligation of all new taxis to be low or zero emissions vehicles. This measure will imply a cut down of 75,000 CO2e Tn/year and the gradual shift towards EV/HEV in the passenger drivers sector.
The aim is moving towards low and zero emissions vehicles adoption; however there are still some major constraints for all the end-users of EV/HEV, which are especially painful for the taxi and car hiring sector:
1) High acquisition cost: an EV/HEV selling price is between 12,000€ and 14,000€ more expensive than its equivalent petrol model.
2) Lack of cost-effective solutions for battery replacement: Battery is the key element of EV/HEV as its proper functioning ensures the autonomy of the car and thus its amortisation for the professional drivers. This means spending up to 70% of the EV/HEV acquisition cost only in battery maintenance.
WWith BATT3RY project, the objectives are to reduce the economic and environmental impact of the batteries. With Batt3ry, there is a second life for the battery replacing the damaged cell for another new ones, and adapting the battery BMS.
First of all the main challenge is to finish the integration of the elements in a final product in its final commercial form into EV/HEVs to have it ready for its market launch into the EV/HEV repairing services. After, adjust production processes for scaling up and cut down on costs; and finally commercialisation of the product
IMPORTANT FOR SOCIETY
Batt3ry is important for society due to the innovation contributes to the development of a greater sustainable mobility. In addition, BATT3RY is in line with the Circular Economy EU Legislation.
With Batt3Ry is achieved two important issues for society:
1. Reduce the impact of use raw material, for new batteries.
2. Reconditioning se batteries with high guarantees, with less economic and environmental impact for end users and society.
Transport represents almost a quarter of Europe's greenhouse gas emissions and is the main cause of air pollution in cities which concentrate 75% of the population in the EU and account for 60-80% of CO2 emissions2. In this context, only in Europe there are more than 252 Million of passenger cars, out of which 3.78 Million corresponds to taxis and hiring cars with drivers, responsible of 12% of total EU emissions of CO2 and 41% of overall EU transport emissions3. In this context, there is an increasing pressure on the governmental and public institutions to reduce the carbon footprint and the deadly amount of GHG emitted by all forms of transport (40% reduction by 2030). Among the measures lately taken in the largest European citie is the obligation of all new taxis to be low or zero emissions vehicles. This measure will imply a cut down of 75,000 CO2e Tn/year and the gradual shift towards EV/HEV in the passenger drivers sector.
The aim is moving towards low and zero emissions vehicles adoption; however there are still some major constraints for all the end-users of EV/HEV, which are especially painful for the taxi and car hiring sector:
1) High acquisition cost: an EV/HEV selling price is between 12,000€ and 14,000€ more expensive than its equivalent petrol model.
2) Lack of cost-effective solutions for battery replacement: Battery is the key element of EV/HEV as its proper functioning ensures the autonomy of the car and thus its amortisation for the professional drivers. This means spending up to 70% of the EV/HEV acquisition cost only in battery maintenance.
WWith BATT3RY project, the objectives are to reduce the economic and environmental impact of the batteries. With Batt3ry, there is a second life for the battery replacing the damaged cell for another new ones, and adapting the battery BMS.
First of all the main challenge is to finish the integration of the elements in a final product in its final commercial form into EV/HEVs to have it ready for its market launch into the EV/HEV repairing services. After, adjust production processes for scaling up and cut down on costs; and finally commercialisation of the product
IMPORTANT FOR SOCIETY
Batt3ry is important for society due to the innovation contributes to the development of a greater sustainable mobility. In addition, BATT3RY is in line with the Circular Economy EU Legislation.
With Batt3Ry is achieved two important issues for society:
1. Reduce the impact of use raw material, for new batteries.
2. Reconditioning se batteries with high guarantees, with less economic and environmental impact for end users and society.
Regarding to technical issue the main outcome of the company is to reuse the batteries at the end of life, replacing the damaged modules for other new ones, maintaining the guarantees of the product. It means new power electronics for the BMS. With this objective the Project has improved their results and experiences regarding to the use of second life battery modules. With the project Batt3ry has evaluated to
• take part of partnership, and innovative cluster in electric mobility, in order to extend the cooperation.
• Identify key stakeholders (competition, potential partners, and clients).
• Determine the market size, sectors, business potential
• Know customer needs and benefits along with competitive advantage.
• Investigate the regulatory framework and the potential for influencing future standardisation work.
• Define unique value proposition
• take part of partnership, and innovative cluster in electric mobility, in order to extend the cooperation.
• Identify key stakeholders (competition, potential partners, and clients).
• Determine the market size, sectors, business potential
• Know customer needs and benefits along with competitive advantage.
• Investigate the regulatory framework and the potential for influencing future standardisation work.
• Define unique value proposition
The innovation of batt3Ry is the first integral repairing method for EV/HEV batteries which considers their full lifecycle and directly responds to the end-users´ demands (reduce amortisation period of the investment to acquire EV/HEV and cut down on maintenance costs while increasing their lifespan). Its ground-breaking proposition consists of extending the life of the batteries of EV/HEV by repairing them with our own designed method and support modules; reusing those cells that are not suitable for automotive use any longer by giving them a second life as part of batteries for domestic use; recycling the elements and materials of those which are unusable.
A) Repairing method: the method consists of substituting only those cells which have failed by new ones on the base of 30 Ni-MH cells (used by Toyota HEVs) per module of 1.2v and 1,350mAh in 6s5p disposition (5 branches in parallel formed by groups of 6 cell in series). These new cells are mounted on the new designed and developed support module which joins robustness. This same method is valid with Li-ion cells, as the ones used by Tesla, which will involve more than 50% of weight reduction in each module compared to the Ni-MH ones and an overall increase of autonomy of 460% due to the higher energy density compared to the Ni-MH.
The unique repairing method has been designed to be extrapolated to all current available VE/HEVs in the market as well as motorbikes, scooters, electric bikes or electric kickboards.
B) Reconditioning and Reusing: those extracted modules during the repairing stage which are still functional but not suitable for automotive re-use are used to build domestic batteries which allow: a) energy storage from renewable sources (i.e. solar, wind); b) energy storage during valley hours to be later used. The combination of these two features will imply up to 62% reduction of electricity bill (consumption in peak hours) in an average home with a single battery able to storage 9.6kWh.
C) Recycling: 95% of the mass of those cells which may be totally worn out, will be recycled through our proprietary mechanical and chemical processes (subjects of patentability
A) Repairing method: the method consists of substituting only those cells which have failed by new ones on the base of 30 Ni-MH cells (used by Toyota HEVs) per module of 1.2v and 1,350mAh in 6s5p disposition (5 branches in parallel formed by groups of 6 cell in series). These new cells are mounted on the new designed and developed support module which joins robustness. This same method is valid with Li-ion cells, as the ones used by Tesla, which will involve more than 50% of weight reduction in each module compared to the Ni-MH ones and an overall increase of autonomy of 460% due to the higher energy density compared to the Ni-MH.
The unique repairing method has been designed to be extrapolated to all current available VE/HEVs in the market as well as motorbikes, scooters, electric bikes or electric kickboards.
B) Reconditioning and Reusing: those extracted modules during the repairing stage which are still functional but not suitable for automotive re-use are used to build domestic batteries which allow: a) energy storage from renewable sources (i.e. solar, wind); b) energy storage during valley hours to be later used. The combination of these two features will imply up to 62% reduction of electricity bill (consumption in peak hours) in an average home with a single battery able to storage 9.6kWh.
C) Recycling: 95% of the mass of those cells which may be totally worn out, will be recycled through our proprietary mechanical and chemical processes (subjects of patentability