AI-powered digital twin models in the cloud aim to improve EVs battery range, efficiency, safety, and lifetime and herald multiple new applications.
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Why It Matters
As batteries continue to be the costliest element in an electric vehicle (EV), AI-powered digital twin cloud services have a high potential to improve estimations of the battery's state of health (SOH) and state of charge (SOC) for improved efficiency, lifetime and cost. Battery digital twins adapt to ongoing changes in battery health due to operating conditions and provide updated figures back to the BMS for continuously improving control decisions.
Carmakers can use the technology to provide driver insights, such as range and speed recommendations. In addition, adaptive battery control can improve the battery's performance and safely extend its lifespan, reducing warranty costs for the carmaker. Another potential application is EV fleet management, providing fleet operators with invaluable usage insights, such as vehicle charging times and battery predictive diagnostics. Battery care centers can also use this in-depth information to reduce downtimes with rapid diagnostics, and EV charging station operators can effectively optimize their charging service and energy efficiency.
As the EV market grows, so will the supply of second-life batteries. Although they may have reached the end of their 'automotive life', these batteries have a significant residual capacity of up to 80%. Tapping into that remaining useful battery life (RUL) in energy storage systems (ESS) for homes has the potential to reduce homeowners' energy bills.
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The second element is NXP's S32G-based vehicle networking processing solutions. NXP GoldBox offers safe high-performance computing capacity and real-time network performance with secure cloud connectivity for data-driven cloud-based automotive services. NXP is collaborating with
'NXP's contribution to the digital twin technology lies in the access to accurate sensor data, real-time closed-loop control of the BMS, high-performance in-vehicle processing and secure connectivity to the cloud for services and over-the-air (OTA) updates. By integrating Electra's EVE-Ai architecture, we address the two main challenges associated with the digital twin approach. These are coping with the abundance of data from our electrification solutions, which requires cleansing and appropriate feature selection, and the variance of use cases, which requires model selection and adaptive training.'
Dr. Andreas Schlapka, Director & Segment Manager Battery Management Systems,
'Electra has always been focused on using a software-first approach to address the electric vehicle battery industry's most pressing range, lifetime, and safety concerns. Now, we have the opportunity to demonstrate our core AI battery adaptive digital twin technology that powers EVE-Ai alongside NXP. NXP has proven to be the perfect partner in this endeavor as they provide cutting edge integration hardware that positions them as leaders in BMS digital twin and cloud connectivity technology for electrification.'
Electra's EVE-Ai architecture processes the data to identify cycles (time series) and extracts features both at the battery and vehicle level. The adaptive cell modeling system technology then dynamically selects the most appropriate model for a specific usage profile.
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