With system integration and lightweight design to highest energy densities

Electric Vehicles will play an important role in future mobility. Despite the high efficiency of the electric motor electric vehicles have only a limited range due to the low energy density of battery systems. The progress on cell level will be only evolutionary, but there is a high potential for weight reduction of other components of traction batteries. Within the FP7 project Smart and Safe Integration of Batteries in Electric Vehicles (SmartBatt) a consortium of nine partners from five European countries pushed up the energy density on system level from 80 to 148 Wh/kg by a smart lightweight design.