"Then a traffic light system indicates the status cell by cell-green means a cell is in good order, yellow means it requires closer inspection, and red means the cell is out of order."Īt that point, one of three things can be done. "We are able to measure all a cell's most important parameters," said Axel Vanden Branden, Quality Engineer at Audi Brussels. VW Launches Pilot Plant for Recycling EV Batteries BattMan then detects and brings up any error messages present, in addition to the insulation resistance, temperatures, cell voltages, and capacity. The device first checks whether a given battery is able to communicate, after plugging in the low-voltage connectors.
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The first version of the software was created by the Audi Brussels quality management department for testing the Audi e-tron's battery, and then received further work from VW Group Components at Salzgitter, which is the site of VW's new battery laboratories. VW Group Components has developed a system dubbed BattMan ReLife (Battery Monitoring Analysis Necessity) that can check the health of a battery in just minutes, taking the guesswork and hours of charging out of the process. With plenty of older EVs on the roads today, the issue of residual battery life and recycling is more pressing than ever when it comes to shopping for vehicles or making decisions about what to do with EVs whose batteries are just about spent. VW has launched a pilot plant for battery recycling in Salzgitter, Germany, and has opened a new battery development lab there for all VW Group brands.Batteries from older EVs can then be remanufactured for use in new EVs, repurposed for charger systems and other hardware, or recycled into components for creation of new batteries.BattMan ReLife, developed by VW Group Components and Audi Brussels, can quickly diagnose EV battery health, displaying several vital stats in minutes.
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