Improving electric mobility
Improving battery life
Electric vehicles emit no exhaust, are quiet, and will soon contribute significantly to reducing environmental pollution. In order to optimize user acceptance with respect to availability and pricing, an application-oriented research project at Software Competence Center Hagenberg has set out to create an integrated analysis platform. The project’s objectives are to improve battery life and to enable pricing based on user profiles.
Overview
Lightweight Energy GmbH High-Tech Energy Systems develops energy management systems based on lithium ion technology, which delivers up to five times better performance than lead-acid batteries. These systems are modular and flexible in their application, including electric boats, vehicles and scooters. A critical success factor for electric mobility is user acceptance, which is directly bound to optimized application of battery technology. Factors include the range of a vehicle, battery life and costs.
Challenge
Lightweight Energy GmbH High-Tech Energy Systems develops energy management systems based on lithium ion technology, which delivers up to five times better performance than lead-acid batteries. These systems are modular and flexible in their application, including electric boats, vehicles and scooters. A critical success factor for electric mobility is user acceptance, which is directly bound to optimized application of battery technology. Factors include the range of a vehicle, battery life and costs.
Solution
"The loading/discharge behavior for an end user in a region that we derive from the transmitted data con bei important for capacity planning for the energy supply. In addition, this lets us offer a price model that is tuned to user behavior," says Christian Bacher, CEO of Lightweight Energy.
A special aspect of the developed software infrastructure is that it was implemented completely with Open Source technology, both for the mobile unit and for the server. This enables economical operation of the software and facilitates transferring it to business partners.