Intelligent power management company Eaton has partnered with Munich Electrification to develop and market its battery configuration switch (BCS), a solution for 400-volt/800-volt dual-string battery ...

This is probably fairly straightforward for an EE to weigh in on so I thought I’d post this question here for posterity in the hopes that it’ll solve the issue for other designers. The challenge is ...

For those willing to put some elbow grease into it, there is an almost unlimited supply of 18650 lithium ion batteries around for cheap (or free) just waiting to be put into a battery pack of some ...

The E-Ducato's battery consists of three or five large battery modules (respectively 47 kWh or 79 kWh total), which are connected in parallel. It's not a typical approach, as usually there are many ...

At some point, the 3.6 V of a single lithium ion battery just won’t do, and you’ll absolutely want to stack LiIon cells in series. When you need high power, you’ve either got to increase voltage or ...

The physical layout is shown in the following two figures: a top view and an end view of what we think the pack might look like. We think the pack will go all the way from behind the front wheels to ...