Electric Vehicles
Unlocking more potential for EVs
Dukosi Cell Monitoring System (DKCMS™) can unlock greater range and performance for the vehicle, while reducing costs, streamlining production, improving safety and reliability for electric vehicle manufacturers and their battery pack suppliers.
DKCMS is advantageous for both small (FHEV/PHEV) or large (BEV) batteries for passenger and commercial vehicles, and even for emerging markets such as electric aircrafts and marine.
Flexible and scalable architecture
Electric vehicle OEMs can scale easily to address different markets with changes to battery capacities and chemistries without requiring revalidation thanks to DKCMS. Forgoing the need for limiting cell modules, they benefit from the flexibility of singular cell increments connected using reliable C-SynQ® communication from the Dukosi System Hub residing on the central BMS host.
Extract more usable energy per pack
With each Dukosi Cell Monitor providing highly accurate and detailed granular information of each cell’s behavior and lifetime status, DKCMS offers better insight into a battery pack’s long-term use. This allows the battery management system to extract more usable energy from each cell while ensuring longevity, slowing or reducing the drop in range over the life of the vehicle.
Reduce weight, improve reliability
By eliminating the complex wiring harness, supplementary PCBs, connectors, module assemblies, and other associated components, DKCMS enables battery pack weight reduction and reliability improvements. This results in a simpler, streamlined battery design. The reduction in weight and improved data quality can enhance the range of an electric vehicle, while still meeting the same reliability and warranty standards.
Reduce costs, optimize and automate manufacturing
DKCMS requires fewer components per battery pack, which in turn simplifies the manufacturing process and supply chain, reducing materials costs. It can potentially enable a fully automated assembly line by eliminating time-consuming manual assembly line steps such as wires, connectors, and pins.
Promoting a circular battery supply chain
By capturing and storing lifetime data on each cell1, DKCMS enables a circular economy (reduce, reuse, recycle) throughout the battery value chain. When the Dukosi Cell Monitor is implemented at an early stage in cell manufacturing, the solution offers lifetime traceability and helps OEMs to show compliance with global regulations, such as the EU Battery Passport. In addition, the lifetime usage data, including any extreme excursion events are stored1, yielding further advantages such as better cell grading, residual value assessment, and safer and more cost-effective second life usage or recycling.
1. Available in DKCMS CorePlus
Enhance battery safety
Allowing every cell in the battery pack to be monitored 24/7, even when the main BMS host is in a low-power state, DKCMS provides immediate detection and alert to cell-level problems and enables earlier fault diagnosis. This creates a safer, more reliable electric vehicle. If necessary, the Dukosi solution can wake the host controller at any time, even if the vehicle is unattended during shipping or parked in a garage, for example.
Electric Aircraft
The Dukosi solution is not just for the road, but also has the potential in the sky, too. Electric aircraft manufacturers can benefit from the reliability and safety gains to fast-track getting their designs off the ground.