Development batteries for electric cars continues to progress, and new technologies appear over the years. Various players in the market are constantly striving to improve the performance, safety and autonomy of batteries.

To go even further, there are several research projects smart battery cells are currently underway: in fact, Volvo recently applied for a patent for an intelligent battery for electric vehicles. This patent was filed by inventor Markus Ekström on behalf of Volvo Cars.

A smart battery for future Volvos

This smart battery for electric vehicles will contribute to a more efficient use of energy stored to ensure a better autonomy use. Thus, future electric cars from Volvo equipped with this technology will be able to charge faster and travel longer distances.

This new battery technology from Volvo is intelligent and able to “think”: in other words, it will be able to “read” and understand its environment. In this way, it will be able to receive data from each cell of the battery in order to adjust its behavior based on this information in order to optimize its performance.

Although little is known so far, Volvo’s idea is to develop such a battery charges more efficiently and fasterand is able to last longer by providing greater autonomy.

Important information about battery status

Currently, batteries for electric vehicles consist of several modules containing thousands of cells. One of the biggest challenges for the automotive industry is ensuring effective communication between each of these elements to optimize battery charging and discharging in addition to electronic battery management systems.

Volvo technology tries to solve this problem in a different way, with a smart battery that can do this control and monitoring of the state of each cell independently A variety of battery sensors will measure the temperature, pressure, expansion and chemical composition of each cell, or even its condition in the event of an impact.

This information is crucial for making a decision battery power managementto optimize its performance for automotive use.