Many other EU-funded projects share BATMAX’s ambition to advance battery technologies through innovation, sustainability, and digital transformation.
Explore these related initiatives and discover how they contribute to a stronger European battery value chain.
If your project aligns with BATMAX’s objectives and you’re interested in collaboration or knowledge exchange, we’d be happy to connect!
Collaborations
THOR Project: Innovative Methodology for Battery Testing
The EU-funded THOR project, launched in June 2023 in Grenoble, addresses the growing demand and innovation challenges in the battery sector, which is being driven by European environmental and mobility policies. Despite high demand, battery innovation is hindered by costly and time-consuming testing protocols, which often take nearly a decade from concept to production.
Objective:
THOR aims to accelerate battery innovation by developing a digital twin—a virtual simulation tool that reduces reliance on physical testing. This tool simulates battery performance, durability, and safety, helping to shorten development time and reduce costs.
Approach:
- Development of three physics-based models for performance, aging, and safety.
- Integration using AI techniques into a comprehensive digital twin.
- Targeting both mobility and stationary applications using widely adopted battery chemistries (projected to dominate 60% of the market by 2030).
- Creation of a user-friendly interface for end users.
Consortium:
An interdisciplinary team from industry, research institutes, and academia, all with global expertise in battery technology, innovation, and energy.
BatteReverse
The BatteReverse project aims to develop the technologies, processes, and partnerships necessary to build a reverse logistics value chain for batteries, from end-of-first-life to decision-making on their future use.
NEXTCELL
NEXTCELL’s overarching goal is to provide a new Li-Ion cell generation for both high capacity and high voltage applications by developing and validating a ground-breaking gellified cell concept, integrating several innovations at the material level for each of the main cell components: the gellification of the electrodes and the separator in combination with a high voltage-stable gel electrolyte will allow the development of the full gel cell concept. NEXTCELL will not only provide the European market with state-of-the-art cells but will also address three key aspects that currently hinder further market penetration of Li-Ion battery technology, such as costs, safety, and sustainability.
The BMS Alliance
The NEMO project aims to deliver next-generation BMS by combining cutting-edge hardware and software concepts. These concepts exploit a wide range of sensor information acquired at high frequencies, along with dedicated electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) sensors. This comprehensive approach enables the identification of different electrochemical processes inside the battery cells and tracks their evolution over time. Combinations of coupled physics-based and data-driven approaches are also planned. With every individual cell monitored, controlled, and studied, NEMO will provide solutions that significantly extend battery life and enhance system safety for automotive and stationary applications over the long term.
NEXTBMS will develop an advanced battery management systems (BMS) built on fundamental knowledge and experience with the physicochemical processes of lithium-ion batteries, which will enable the significant enhancement of current modelling approaches, including the readiness for upcoming lithium (Li) battery material developments. These modelling approaches will be further improved by optimising sensors and measurement techniques to meet modelling needs (and optimising models based on physical sensor data) and the physical cell configurations to form a framework that supports improving the battery state prediction and -control. By solving these challenges, NEXTBMS will ensure that the next generation of BMSs will enable higher performance, safety, and longer lifetime of the battery cells for an overall optimal utilisation of the battery system.
ENERGETIC project, funded by the EU Horizon Europe program, aims at developing the next generation BMS for optimising batteries’ systems utilisation in the first (transport) and the second life (stationary) in a path towards more reliable, powerful, and safer operations. It contributes to the field of translational enhanced sensing technologies, exploiting multiple AI models, supported by Edge and Cloud computing. ENERGETIC will monitor and predict the remaining useful life of a Li-ion battery through a digital twin.