UK-based technology and engineering services company WAE Technologies today launched its Elysia battery intelligence software offering to unlock significant improvements in the range, life, safety, power, and rapid charging times of EV (electric vehicle) batteries.  The company says it brings game-changing battery insight, management, and optimization to the mass market for the first time. Its application spans automotive, commercial vehicle, and e-mobility sectors to stationary energy storage.

“For more than a decade now, WAE Technologies has led the world in the design, development, and manufacture of the most advanced electric vehicle batteries ever seen,” said WAE Technologies CEO, Craig Wilson. “We have been the sole supplier to major electrified motorsport series, from Formula E to Extreme E, ETCR, and LMDh, extending batteries to their limits in the heat of competition on the racetrack. We’ve also pushed the boundaries with the electrification of hypercar programs and lately, electric mining trucks and other heavy equipment.

“One of the most crucial components of our leadership is the software which has enabled these vehicles to set new performance standards. At WAE’s core is the commitment to transferring new technology from motorsport to other sectors—so I am delighted we have launched Elysia today. The electric mobility market is growing quickly, and battery intelligence is the key to unlocking the potential of what is the most fundamental part of an EV.”

Elysia draws on WAE’s experience in high-performance batteries gleaned from being the sole supply of batteries to ground-breaking electric motorsport series as well as the design and development of batteries for electric hypercars and mining trucks. This expertise, amassed over more than a decade, has seen WAE push the limits of battery system performance, longevity, and charging in harsh environments—with software playing a vital role.

The first mass-market battery software from WAE offers a suite of other digital innovations. It features embedded and cloud-based products that together provide customers with not only unprecedented access to battery insights but the ability to manage, optimize, and enhance performance across the battery’s entire lifecycle in the vehicle and after-market applications such as stationary grid storage. Elysia is built upon a unique combination of AI and data science fused with electrochemical modeling expertise.

The offering is based on two core products.

Elysia Embedded is embedded in the battery, for example directly on an EV’s battery or a stationary energy storage system. It has BMS (battery management system) algorithms designed to help OEMs increase vehicle range, enable faster charging, and maximize battery power, enabling them to stay ahead of the competition by delivering the best possible performance to customers without compromising safety or battery life.

Compared to conventional BMSs, which have traditionally used data from testing and limits specified by cell suppliers to build software, Elysia Embedded’s algorithms offer customers the ability to unleash untapped potential. In previous applications, they have enabled up to a 30% increase in battery life, a 50% increase in battery power output, up to 10% potential increase in battery range, and 50% faster rapid charging compared to traditional battery management algorithms. Through optimization, Elysia can help auto OEMs reduce over-sizing and -engineering of batteries, enabling them to be smaller, lighter, more cost-effective, and more sustainable.

Elysia Cloud Platform uses digital-twin technology to help OEMs, fleet owners, and battery asset financiers turn data into actionable insights, enabling customers to forecast and extend battery life, ensure safety, and protect warranty and residual values. By providing a complete picture of the battery’s state of health, it brings much-needed transparency, while enabling accurate verification of degradation and in-life fault-finding, offering the potential to revolutionize the second-life battery market, according to the company.

“The battery in any electric vehicle of any kind represents the single most valuable system by far,” said Elysia Commercial Lead, Joe Jones. “Better understanding of battery systems will transform how we manage them to realize their full potential.”

He says that Elysia battery intelligence opens a new era of electrification, born on the racetrack but designed for the real world.

“It brings a new generation of battery intelligence to a wide range of industries, from the automotive and e-mobility sectors to stationary energy storage and beyond,” he said.

The technology’s capabilities offer unprecedented insight and foresight, according to Jones, unleashing untapped performance, life, and safety for all-electric vehicles and other battery systems.

“We are providing easy-to-interpret, actionable battery insights to give OEMs, fleets, and battery asset financiers unprecedented transparency, allowing them to optimize a battery and improve its performance and the value it delivers over the course of its life,” he concluded.