August 4, 2012

$3.2 million to develop battery management system for electric-car batteries




$3.2 million to develop battery management system for electric-car batteries

WUSTL wins $2 million DOE grant with $1.2 million in matching funds provided by the School of Engineering & Applied Sciences

The Department of Energy (DOE) announced Aug. 2 that a team of engineers at Washington University in St. Louis will receive $2 million to design a battery management system for lithium-ion batteries that will guarantee their longevity, safety and performance. This is a particularly challenging project because the electrochemical reactions inside the battery are not easily captured in mathematical form.

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