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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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Green Tech Battery

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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Future of Mobility

Even though batteries are a controversial topic, most manufacturers and legislators rely on battery electric vehicles because of its advantages over other alternatives. This article examines why batteries are the future of mobility and play a key role for renewable energies.
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Battery Technology

Batteries are highly complex electrochemical systems with different cell formats and chemistries being used. The processes inside the battery also deserve particular attention.
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EV Market Dynamics

The electrification of mobility is accelerating quickly and turning the automotive industry and other major industries upside down. With electrification the focus shifts away from the engine towards the batteries.
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Why do lithium-ion batteries age, and how to slow it down?

Electric vehicle batteries are costly and sensitive parts, and their performance depends on numerous factors like frequency of charge and discharge, the charging system, driving habits, and external temperature. Until now, it was almost impossible for developers or users of batteries to make any reliable analysis or statement about the current state of the device. However, this information can be now delivered by the digital twin created by TWAICE.
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Battery development

This article looks at the development of batteries and how virtual testing and software solutions can accelerate and improve the development of battery-powered products while keeping the time to market low.
Battery cell testing in the TWAICE battery lab for battery modeling

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.
Cell testing in the TWAICE battery lab.

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.
TWAICE testing simulation, Batteriemodell-Bibliothek

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.