Bosch is to receive German federal state funding as part of a new consortium in Germany that aims to establish Germany as a leading provider of electromobility technologies.
Funding from Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research comes as part of the “Energy-efficient and safe electromobility” initiative (STROM 2) within the German federal government’s “ICT 2020 – Research for Innovation” funding program.
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The project partners are aiming to improve battery performance in electric vehicles. The hope is that smart battery management will give a significant boost to the performance, safety, and service life of electric and hybrid vehicles. An innovative method that uses the path travelled by the electricity in the battery to transmit data provides the technical basis for the optimum exchange of measurement data and control signals, Bosch says. Between now and May 2016, the IntLiIon project (intelligent data bus concepts for lithium-ion batteries in electric and hybrid vehicles) will receive 2.5 million euros in funding from Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
The IntLilon project aims to develop smart data transmission techniques specifically for lithium-ion batteries. Its focus of research is on innovative communications systems capable of efficiently controlling and monitoring each of the up to 100 cells found in a battery pack.
