Cambridge EnerTech’s

Battery Engineering for Automotive Applications

Building Better Batteries through Improvements in Battery Safety, Cell Engineering, and Battery Management Systems

December 12-13, 2023

As battery technology continues to improve, the need grows for well-engineered battery systems that take full advantage of the active cell materials. We need to design packs that guarantee a reliable cell performance and to integrate battery pack into vehicles to meet vehicle constraints and ensure safety, reliability, and durability. Cell design, including the choice of non-active components, has a considerable impact on battery performance and reliability. Battery pack design and integration presents thermal, mechanical, and electrical engineering challenges, almost independent of cell chemistry. Optimizing cell and pack design according to the duty cycle of the application requires a careful balance between cell and pack energy, power, manufacturability, abuse tolerance, thermal characteristics, and cost.