The ESTRELIA consortium fully concentrates therefore on the whole value added-chain to guarantee a wide acceptance to the industry and attract at the end of the day to the end-users which are people of the European community. Only when it is possible to mitigate the constraints for the user of the FEV’s a wide acceptance and broadadoption will be guaranteed of these new effective, innovative solutions for future mobility. The Consortium of this project has the full range of industry-leading capabilities to ensure a significant improvement of FEV in terms of performance, long term reliability, safety and comfort.

Development objectives with the target to provide verified prototypes

• develop an integrated flexible battery management system BMS for ultracapacitor cellbalancing
• provide new ultracapacitor power cell pack design targeting for 50% higher energy density and verify enhanced reliability
• assess power pack in accordance with new standards and guidelines for robustness validation and lifetime cycle (ILCD)
• provide automotive environment verified prototypes for integrated flexible battery management system BMS for Li-Ion energy packs allowing simultaneous cell measurement and active Li-Ionbattery cell balancing
• developand characterize optimized and cost reduced BMScommunication ICs with galvanic isolation up to 2.5kV
• target to reduce the electronic component costs for integrated Li-Ion battery management system BMS by 1/3rd
• provide new gas safety sensor with high sensitivity and fast response for advanced energy storage systems
• develop new high voltage (several kV) capable test and characterization equipment

Research objectives to evaluate further cost reduction and safety improvement potential

• develop and evaluate new advanced MEMS based spark detection sensor to improve safety monitoring of energy storage systems
• verify new advanced Li-Ion BMS reliability and improved long-term stability
• investigate future BMS ICs technology integration and cost improvement potential
• develop new cost effective power antifuse for dynamical configuration of energy storage units
• Investigate gassensor hot plate and CMOS integration potential for costreduction