Design Automation for Battery System Variants of Electric Vehicles with Integrated Product and Process Evaluation

From the absence of standardization regarding components of battery systems for electric vehicles results a large number of theoretically applicable battery configurations for a given application. This leads to decision making problems and expenditure of time during development processes. This paper presents a method that automates the electrical and mechanical design process of battery systems to identify applicable battery variants. The design automation is coupled to an evaluation tool that allows variant selection regarding product and process characteristics such as power, energy or ease of assembly. The paper closes with a use case of a medium sized electric vehicle.