Introduction
Battery types and key technologies for BMS
Battery types in EVs
Tab.1 Popular types of battery in EVs |
Battery type | Service life/cycle | Nominal voltage/V | Energy density/(W·h·kg‒1) | Power density/(W·kg‒1) | Charging efficiency/% | Self-discharge rate/(%·month‒1) | Charging temperature/oC | Discharging temperature/oC |
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Li-ion battery | 600‒3000 | 3.2‒3.7 | 100‒270 | 250‒680 | 80‒90 | 3‒10 | 0 to 45 | ‒20 to 60 |
Lead acid battery | 200‒300 | 2.0 | 30‒50 | 180 | 50‒95 | 5 | -20 to 50 | ‒20 to 50 |
NiCd battery | 1000 | 1.2 | 50‒80 | 150 | 70‒90 | 20 | 0 to 45 | ‒20 to 65 |
NiMH battery | 300‒600 | 1.2 | 60‒120 | 250‒1000 | 65 | 30 | 0 to 45 | ‒20 to 65 |
Key technologies for BMS
Battery modelling
Battery electric model
Battery thermal model
Battery coupled electro-thermal model
Battery state estimation
SOC estimation
SOH estimation
Internal temperature estimation
Joint state estimation
Battery charging approach
Tab.2 Charging performance for various batteries |
Battery type | Charging performance |
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Li-ion | 1) High temperature can improve charging speed but damage to battery lifetime; 2) charging is dangerous at pretty low temperature, well below freezing |
Lead acid | 1) Higher temperature leads to lower V-threshold by 3 mV/°C; 2) charging at 0.3 C or less below freezing |
NiMH, NiCd | 1) Charging acceptance decreases from 70% at 45 °C to 45% at 60 °C, respectively; 2) 0.1 C charging rate between –17 °C and 0 °C; 3) 0.3 C charging between 0 °C and 6 °C |
Traditional battery charging approach
Tab.3 Comparison of traditional battery charging approaches in EVs |
Approach | Advantages | Disadvantages | Key elements |
---|---|---|---|
CC | Easy to implement | Capacity utilization is low | 1) Charging constant current rate; 2) terminal condition |
CV | 1) Easy to implement; 2) stable terminal voltage | Easy to cause the lattice collapse of battery | 1) Charging constant voltage; 2) terminal condition |
CC-CV | 1) Capacity utilization is high; 2) stable terminal voltage | Difficult to balance objectives such as charging speed, energy loss, temperature variation | 1) Constant current rate in CC phase; 2) constant voltage in CV phase; 3) terminal condition |
MCC | 1) Easy to implement; 2) easy to achieve fast charging | Difficult to balance objectives such as charging speed, capacity utilization and battery lifetime | 1) The number of CC stages. 2) constant current rates for each stage. |