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Case study 03

Fast-charging Optimisation

Global automobile OEM
Reduce protocol time while protecting battery life

Problem

  • Meet charging and infrastructure requirements while maintaining cell warranty compliance
  • Minimize degradation due to fast charging cycles
  • Design and validate the optimized protocol prior to deployment
  • Thermal constraints limiting charging performance and rate

Solution

  • Physics-based fast charging optimization framework
  • Assess multi-stage CCCV and pulse charging strategies considering thermal performance and degradation impact
  • Optimization within infrastructure and warranty constraints
  • Full protocol validation pre-deployment

Outcome

  • Optimized charging protocol identified to minimize fast-charging-induced lithium plating and degradation.
  • Charging protocols optimized to ensure compliance with cell supplier warranty requirements.
  • Reduced charging protocol optimization and finalization effort by 40%.
  • Thermal impact fully evaluated during the optimization phase.

Fast Charging Protocol Validation at 25°C

Protocol: 3C → 2C CC
4.18V cutoff 0.02C
Lithium plating risk monitored throughout

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  • Experimental Voltage (V)
  • Predicted Voltage (V)
  • Experimental SoC
  • Predicted SoC
Max error in charging time
1.4%
Conventional models assume ideal pack behaviour without any cell to cell variation
40%
Thermal behaviour only discovered during hardware testing
88 → 66 min
Late-stage validation increases the development cost
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