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Improve battery system design with battery simulation models

Batteries are a key technology in the transition to carbon-free mobility. When it comes to designing battery systems for electric products, batteries must meet certain requirements that must still be met after years of operation, in order to avoid jeopardizing the intended business case and damaging companies. TWAICE's simulation models help engineers make the right decisions fast when designing a battery system, leading to reduced risks, improved reliability, and faster time to market.

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De-risk your BESS projects by keeping track of warranty conditions

What are performance warranties and why are they important in the design, operation and bankability of battery energy storage systems projects? This article answers these questions and shows how our TWAICE Warranty Tracker can minimize risks and ensure a successful business case.

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TWAICE Vision | Wasim Sarwar from Rimac Automobili

This video shows the TWAICE Vision battery analytics conference presentation from Wasim Sarwar - Head of Research & Advanced Engineering at Rimac Automobili.

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Battery industry 2023: More sustainability, safety and independence

Battery industry predictions for 2023 by Dr. Matthias Simolka, Senior Technical Solution Engineer at TWAICE

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Case Study VERBUND

Learn how VERBUND increased profitability of battery energy storage systems by incorporating battery aging into its operating strategy.
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4 Steps to Maximize the Value of Battery Energy Storage Systems

This article walks you through some of the most common steps when considering the deployment and operation of a battery storage system, and show you the power of data monitoring, smart algorithms, and simulations to maximize the economic return of battery energy storage systems throughout their lifetime across multiple revenue streams.
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TWAICE Vision Conference Report

In February, TWAICE hosted a conference about the importance of software in a battery-driven future. Speakers from leading companies in the electric vehicle, energy and battery industries discussed its challenges. A conference report now highlights the main findings of the event.
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International Battery Day

The battery is in its second century. And with more car buyers now opting for electric, it seems a good opportunity to recognize what batteries have done for humankind, and the advantages their technology offers the mobility and energy spaces.
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Three e-mobility trends 2022

The importance of e-mobility to sustainability and environmental awareness continues to grow. Some of the trends that will be emerging for this year include battery-drive at the cutting edge, image change for batteries, and second life batteries enabled by software analytics.
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Predictive battery analytics in the energy sector

Battery storage is a fundamental part of the energy sector. Batteries, however, are complex systems. Deriving the maximum profit from them without incurring any additional risk is the overarching goal of most energy operators. This is where battery analytics can help.
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E-Bus Battery Optimization

The e-bus market is already moving fast in 2021. Established bus manufacturers are setting the pace. E-bus manufacturers are currently facing a plethora of questions and uncertainties. Major challenges include the development of the highly complex batteries, warranty management, sustainable fleet management and the issue of battery reuse and recycling.
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E-Bus Fleet Management

The e-bus market is developing rapidly in 2021. Pollution in cities and towns is the often cited reason for the transition from old diesel machines to clean e-buses. But many transport companies are still concerned, their primary worry being the expense of the batteries.
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Electric Vehicle Recalls

Numerous recent recalls showed how much risk is associated with the most important competent of the emission-free mobility. The battery is a highly complex piece of technology that must be tightly analyzed not only during the development but also during operation.
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Approaches to battery modeling

Batteries are complex systems whose operation is determined by a variety of factors, making long term projections a challenge. However, it is possible to understand the future conduct of these systems by building models that mimic their behavior and leverage the computational power to perform the required calculations.
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Streamlining e-bus warranty discussions

The automotive sector’s transition to green mobility is challenging the bus operators across the world. That was the case of a major operator of electric buses in the Netherlands, who reached out to ViriCiti and TWAICE regarding our Battery Health Solution to integrate data-driven decision making focused on batteries, to avoid timely and costly warranty discussions.
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The Power of Signalling

What is the potential impact of Battery Health Reports (BHR) on remarketing success of the battery electric vehicle (BEV)? Besides age and mileage, driver profile has a major impact on how long a battery lasts. In the absence of documentation of how a driver has treated the battery, residual value formation remains below its full potential.
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Modeling capacity fade of li-ion batteries

Aging models are fundamental tools to optimize the application of lithium-ion batteries. In this work, we show that the CAP-method models capacity fade more accurately when applied to dynamic cyclic aging tests with periodically changing mean state-of-charge, depth-of-discharge, ambient temperature and discharge rates for a commercial NCA cell with a silicon-doped graphite anode.
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Combining EIS and time-domain data

This work proposes a method to combine time-domain and frequency-domain measurement data for parameterization of RC elements by exploiting the full potential of the distribution of relaxation times (DRT).
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Quantifiability of Cell-to-Cell Variations

Motivated by the question of why impedance variation is consistently reported to be higher than the variation of other parameters, we show that measuring inherent parameter variations caused by production tolerances is superimposed by effects of an imperfect measurement setup.