Project description
A better battery pack for urban electric vehicles
The emergence of electric vehicles demands new concepts for the smart control of electrical and thermal management systems. The EU-funded HELIOS project will create a new concept of a smart, scalable and modular battery pack for a wide range of vehicles, from mid-size electric cars to electric buses. The project will develop and integrate innovative materials, designs, technologies and processes to improve batteries’ performance, energy density, safety, lifetime and levelised cost of storage. HELIOS will investigate innovative solutions that integrate hardware and software, exploiting advanced materials, power electronics, sensors, and cutting-edge ICT such as cloud-based big data analysis, artificial intelligence and Internet of Things technologies running in the cloud.
Objective
The HELIOS project aims at developing and integrating innovative materials, designs, technologies and processes to create a new concept of smart, modular and scalable battery pack for a wide range of electric vehicles used in urban electromobility services, from mid-size electric vehicles to electric buses, with improved performance, energy density, safety, lifetime and LCoS (Levelized Cost of Storage). Novel developments that integrate hardware and software solutions for the smart control of electrical and thermal management systems that exploit advanced materials, power electronics, sensors and cutting-edge ICT, such as cloud-based Big Data Analysis, Artificial Intelligence and IoT (Internet of Things) technologies running in the cloud are investigated and implemented within the HELIOS action. These combined approaches enable: i) increase energy and power density; ii) enhance key characteristics like ultra-high power charging; iii) improve safety; iv) improve E fleet control and health management strategies to extend lifetime; v) create optimised EV charge and discharge procedures and predictive maintenance schedules; vi) monitor SOC (State of Charge), SOH (State of Health) and carbon footprint for each battery pack throughout its entire life cycle, which allows an effective integrated supply chain for the manufacture, reuse and recycling of Li-ion battery packs to be established; viii) improve battery pack design and performance with reduced LCoS, based on a circular economy approach where the modular battery packs can be easily re-used in a range of 2nd life applications prior to EoL recycling and ix) assessment of HELIOS solution effectiveness in different urban electromobility models such as car-fleets and e-bus fleets.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwaste managementwaste treatment processesrecycling
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftware
- natural scienceschemical scienceselectrochemistryelectric batteries
- social sciencessocial geographytransportelectric vehicles
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringthermodynamic engineeringheat engineering
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Participants (18)
76131 Karlsruhe
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35430 İzmir
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02150 Espoo
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08930 Sant Adria De Besos
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78130 Les Mureaux
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08700 Igualada
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45030 Manisa
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93055 Regensburg
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93055 Regensburg
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08100 Mollet Del Valles
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06930 Sincan / Ankara
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08034 Barcelona
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70563 Stuttgart
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2630 Taastrup
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1000 Sofia
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06100 Ankara
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HP2 7TE Hemel Hempstead
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08021 Barcelona
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