We are excited to share our first paper “Identifying Building Blocks for Second-Life-Enabled Battery Management Systems“ published by Blümke, Julian, Laves, Claudius and Hof, Hans-Joachim from our partner Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt.
The growing adoption of electric vehicles has led to a significant increase in the demand for lithium-ion batteries. Although these batteries can no longer meet the energy and power requirements of electric vehicles once their capacity drops below a certain amount, they retain sufficient performance for second-life applications such as renewable energy storage and backup power systems.
But integrating existing Battery Management Systems (BMS) into second-life use is not trivial: issues of compatibility, accessing historical data, and updating firmware often stand in the way.
This paper dives into exactly that challenge. Through a comprehensive analysis of existing literature and methodology, this study proposes a novel approach to BMS using building blocks to enable the installation of updated firmware and to access historical data.
