German automotive parts supplier MAHLE has developed a new bionic battery cooling plate with cooling channels modeled on shapes encountered in nature (i.e. coral) that cause the coolant to flow differently than conventional flow-through solutions. MAHLE’s bionic structure improves the thermodynamic performance and structural-mechanical properties of the cooling plate, says the company. Also, the design… Read more »
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Battery cooling performance: Comparing liquid-dispense gap fillers with thermal pads
Sponsored by LORD Corporation The focus of LORD Corporation’s study is to investigate how the superior thermal transfer provided by gap fillers versus gap pads affects cooling of actual battery modules. Battery modules were assembled using LORD gap fillers with thermal conductivity of 2 and 4 W/m·K, and also with commercially available gap pads of… Read more »
BMW seeks new EV battery cooling solutions
BMW is seeking new solutions for EV battery cooling that can provide improved cooling capacity during fast charging as well as a reduction in noise and vibration emissions. BMW will consider both early-stage and mature solutions, and will work to evaluate and develop solutions that meet its criteria. BMW’s key criteria for solutions include an… Read more »
XING Mobility’s electric supercar uses novel battery cooling system
Taipei-based electric powertrain startup XING Mobility has announced a 1,341 hp rally-inspired supercar that’s not afraid to leave the roadway. Miss R has 4 independent 350 V motors and 4-wheel torque vectoring, and XING says she will be able to reach 100 km/h in 1.8 seconds. In response to the inevitable comparison to the new… Read more »
Johnson Controls and Fraunhofer collaborate on new battery cooling systems
Johnson Controls and the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, one of Europe’s biggest organizations for applied research, have signed an agreement to develop next-generation cooling systems for vehicle batteries. The collaboration will focus on technologies and thermal management strategies for lithium-ion battery packs. Currently, systems with fans, compressors or pumps use energy to pull heat out of a battery…. Read more »
XING Mobility shows new EV battery pack with immersion cooling technology
XING Mobility showed off its new Immersio cell-to-pack (CTP) product at the recent IAA Mobility show in Munich. XING’s Immersio CTP Solution is a flexible battery pack concept that can be customized to meet the specific needs of various applications, such as sedans, commercial cars, trucks, sports cars, SUVs and more. It offers specific energy… Read more »
Webinar: Assessing technologies for dielectric protection for battery cells and cooling plates
With the significant growth and development of battery pack technologies, manufacturers of EVs are placing an increased emphasis on pack design optimization seeking lighter weight and more compact solutions to gain additional energy density and reduce cost. In our webinar, we will discuss our evaluation of the dielectric protection, process application advantages and disadvantages, edge… Read more »
Formulated Fluids: An Upgrade In Battery Immersion Cooling
The world of global transportation is becoming increasingly electrified and with this comes new hardware and fluid challenges. One of the most significant challenges facing the development of EVs is how to keep the batteries cool enough to function at peak performance throughout the life of the vehicle. There are many cooling methods which OEMs… Read more »
Lucid’s cell specialist, battery immersion cooling and more (Today’s webinar schedule)
Today, Charged is hosting a virtual conference on EV engineering that’s free to attend. The conference includes live webinar sessions with interactive Q&As and on-demand webinars. View the daily session schedule online here. All live sessions will be recorded and available to view after the broadcasts. You can access the recorded videos on each session’s… Read more »