Tuesday May 23rd, 2023: Elysia, the pioneering new battery intelligence offering from WAE Technologies, is shining a light on how a cloud connected BMS can bring motorsport grade analytics to mass market EV batteries at this week’s Battery Show Europe.
Held 23-25 May in Stuttgart, Germany, the event is a destination for battery manufacturers, suppliers, engineers, thought leaders and decision-makers, a conference and battery tech expo focused on the latest developments in the advanced battery and automotive industries.
Offering game-changing insight, management, and optimisation of batteries to the mass automotive market for the first time, Elysia’s suite of battery intelligence technologies can unleash the potential of any electric vehicle.
Drawing on WAE’s unrivalled experience in high-performance batteries, gleaned from the sole supply of batteries to ground-breaking electric motorsport series, as well as the design and development of batteries for electric hypercars and mining trucks, Elysia distils unique expertise, amassed over more than a decade at the apex of battery advancement, which has seen WAE push the limits of performance, longevity and charging in the harshest environments on the planet – with software playing a vital role.
Elysia features state-of-the-art embedded and cloud-based products which together provide customers – such as fleet operators and battery asset financiers – with not only unprecedented access to battery insights, but the ability to manage, optimise and enhance performance across the battery’s entire lifecycle.
The core offering is based around two key products:
Elysia Cloud Platform is a cloud-based system which uses proprietary digital twin technology. It helps OEMs, fleet owners and battery asset financiers turn data into actionable insights, designed to enable these customers to forecast and extend battery life, enhance safety, and protect warranty and residual values. By providing a complete picture of the battery’s state of health, it brings much-needed transparency, while enabling accurate verification of degradation and in-life fault-finding, offering the potential to revolutionise the second-life battery market.
Elysia Embedded is a suite of state-of-the-art battery management algorithms, which run locally on the Battery Management System (BMS) – for example directly on an EV’s battery. Its best-in-class BMS algorithms help car makers to increase vehicle range, enable faster charging, and maximise battery power, enabling them to stay ahead of the competition delivering the best possible performance to customers, without compromising safety or battery life.
Whereas conventional battery management systems traditionally require extensive data from testing and limits specified by cell suppliers to build software that controls how the battery is used, Elysia Embedded’s algorithms offers customers the ability to unleash untapped potential through intelligent ‘physics-informed’ models.
While this approach has formed an integral part of WAE’s motorsport capability, these algorithms have been designed to run on standard low-cost chips as typically found in mass-market battery management systems. In applications to date, this has shown the ability to bring up to a 30% increase in battery life and 10% potential increase in battery range, whilst also enabling dramatically reduced fast charge times and higher peak power output when compared to traditional battery management algorithms.
Elysia is built upon a unique combination of AI and data science, fused with electrochemical modelling expertise, while being grounded in unrivalled real-world battery engineering and development experience.
As well as exhibiting on Stand 10F50, Elysia Technical Lead, Tim Engstrom, will be delivering a presentation at the conference, entitled “Battery Intelligence: A vision for connected BMS for the masses”, (11:45AM on Tuesday 23rd May at the Open Tech Forum) which will give attendees insight into how the next generation of battery management systems will be cloud-connected by design, enabling OEMs to unlock performance personalised to individual customers, while being able to manage warranty more intelligently.
Elysia Commercial Lead, Joe Jones, said: “Elysia, Battery Intelligence from WAE, brings a new generation of battery intelligence to the automotive and e-mobility sectors. Its unique capabilities offer unprecedented insight and foresight, unleashing untapped performance, life and safety to every electric vehicle.
“We are delighted to be attending the show and looking forward to explaining how our unique combination of artificial intelligence, electrochemistry and real-world experience combines in our BMS embedded and cloud platform products to battery manufacturers, vehicle OEMs and battery owners to unlock performance, enhance safety and reliability, and have better insight into battery health and life.
“Importantly, we don’t just deliver data, we interpret it into actionable insights that can make a difference to the longevity and performance of batteries in the real world.”
