Journal
WORLD ELECTRIC VEHICLE JOURNAL
Volume 11, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/wevj11040077
Keywords
electric vehicle battery; energy density; specific energy; packing efficiency; system design; cell type; BEV; battery engineering
Funding
- Federal Ministry of Education and Research [3XP0113D-HiT-Cell]
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The motivation of this paper is to identify possible directions for future developments in the battery system structure for BEVs to help choosing the right cell for a system. A standard battery system that powers electrified vehicles is composed of many individual battery cells, modules and forms a system. Each of these levels have a natural tendency to have a decreased energy density and specific energy compared to their predecessor. This however, is an important factor for the size of the battery system and ultimately, cost and range of the electric vehicle. This study investigated the trends of 25 commercially available BEVs of the years 2010 to 2019 regarding their change in energy density and specific energy of from cell to module to system. Systems are improving. However, specific energy is improving more than energy density. More room for improvements is thus to be gained in packaging optimization and could be a next step for further battery system development. Other aspects looked at are cell types and sizes. There, a trend to larger and prismatic cells could be identified.
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