A new battery laboratory has opened in Munich, Germany, for analysing battery behaviour and optimising battery development.
Battery analytics software company Twaice and R&D service provider Vispiron Systems are behind the Munich Battery Lab.
The laboratory will be testing lithium-ion batteries for performance and stability under predefined environmental conditions. The two Munich-based companies have built a testing infrastructure for analysis of different cell types in the battery, at a current of one to several hundred amperes, a cooling capacity of 40 kW and using 10 temperature chambers.
The facility also enables the analysis of multiple chemistries, parameter and lifetime tests, thermal cycling tests, and calendar or cyclic ageing tests (electrical, thermal or combined).
Customers will gain a better understanding of battery behaviour in order to optimise their battery development. The test infrastructure will provide additional data for Twaice’s battery analytics.
They claim it creates one of the most important and technologically advanced competence centres for batteries in Germany, with over 100 available measurement channels and temperatures ranging from -20 °C to +80 °C. It covers over 100 square metres.
Twaice claims to be the world’s leading provider of battery analytics software and has years of experience in analysing field and laboratory data. Its existing battery laboratory has been parameterising models for automotive manufacturers, energy customers and others for two years.
