Log In   |   Sign up

New User Registration

Article / Abstract Submission
Register here
Register
Press Release Submission
Register here
Register
coolingZONE Supplier
Register here
Register

Existing User


            Forgot your password
John O | August 2018

U.K. partnership seeks to improve battery storage systems for heavy-duty vehicles


By Josh Perry, Editor
[email protected]

 

Avid Technology (Northumberland, U.K.) has teamed up with Caterpillar UK and Imperial College London on a £2.8 million project to develop a new, more efficient battery storage system that can be used with electric machinery.

 


A new collaboration will seek to improve battery life in electric, heavy-duty vehicles. (Wikimedia Commons)

 

According to a report posted on the Avid website, this project is partly funded by Innovate UK’s Faraday Challenge Industrial Strategy Fund and is determined to meet the demand for a longer life cycle in batteries being used in heavy-duty electric or hybrid machinery.

 

Avid has expertise in designing power electronics and motors for electric vehicles, robotics, and aerospace and will utilize new simulation techniques to demonstrate an integrated powertrain that is commercially-viable for this sector.

 

In the report, Avid managing director Ryan Maughan said, ““In recent years there have been major advances in energy storage driven in part by the boom in the automotive sector for electric and hybrid passenger cars. This has resulted in huge improvements in energy density and, crucially, cost.

 

“However the emissions and environmental impact of heavy-duty vehicles such as trucks, buses, and construction machinery are far greater due to the high operating hours and power factors required.”

Choose category and click GO to search for thermal solutions

 
 

Subscribe to Qpedia

a subscription to qpedia monthly thermal magazine from the media partner advanced thermal solutions, inc. (ats)  will give you the most comprehensive and up-to-date source of information about the thermal management of electronics

subscribe

Submit Article

if you have a technical article, and would like it to be published on coolingzone
please send your article in word format to [email protected] or upload it here

Subscribe to coolingZONE

Submit Press Release

if you have a press release and would like it to be published on coolingzone please upload your pr  here

Member Login

Supplier's Directory

Search coolingZONE's Supplier Directory
GO
become a coolingzone supplier

list your company in the coolingzone supplier directory

suppliers log in

Media Partner, Qpedia

qpedia_158_120






Heat Transfer Calculators