Feasibility Study: Range Extension & Improved Efficiency / 2021
Dynamic Electric Vehicle Powertrain
COLLINS LIMITED
Electric vehicle batteries have a number of drawbacks: high battery weight reducing range, high battery voltages introduce safety risks, and powertrains not optimised for a wide power band. Collins Limited has developed a dynamic, or ‘smart’, battery concept to mitigate against these deficiencies.
Battery packs are manufactured in well-established ways, but which bound a vehicle’s performance capability and range. The dynamic battery concept removes this restriction, creating opportunities to improve these weaknesses whilst adding performance.
In particular, this concept can reduce battery mass by up to 50%, almost completely eradicate electrical safety issues and improve performance across the speed range.