WASHINGTON, D.C. — GM Protection, a subsidiary of Common Motors, is offering industrial battery electrical know-how in assist of the College of Texas at Arlington (UTA) Pulsed Energy and Power Laboratory (PPEL) and Naval Floor Warfare Middle Philadelphia Division (NSWCPD). The undertaking, Analysis of Electrical Car Batteries to Allow Directed Power (EEVBEDE), is funded by the Operational Power Innovation workplace of the U.S. Division of Protection (DoD), by means of its Operational Power Functionality Enchancment Fund (OECIF). UTA PPEL will consider the know-how to grasp present capabilities of economic automotive batteries underneath dynamic discharge and cost eventualities. The workforce’s analysis of the know-how will assist present pathways and choices for domestically equipped vitality storage for future use in army platforms.
GM Protection is leveraging GM’s Ultium Platform propulsion structure, for analysis and testing. The Ultium Platform can ship energy, vary and scale past any earlier GM hybrid or prolonged vary EV know-how. Modular and scalable, the Ultium Platform can use completely different chemistries and cell type components, making it adaptable to altering wants and new know-how insertions as they develop into out there. Using the battery applied sciences of its guardian firm, GM Protection might help remedy the DoD’s vitality and vitality storage challenges. The work carried out on this new effort will present insights into the efficiency and design issues when batteries are utilized in extra dynamic, high-power operations than can be confronted by extra typical purposes. OECIF assist performs a key position within the improvement of latest energy and vitality applied sciences, which offer the DoD with superior capabilities and assist forestall energy and vitality from being a limiting issue.
“The Division of Protection can profit from billions of {dollars} in GM investments to develop and manufacture transformative battery applied sciences,” says Steve duMont, president of GM Protection. “These applied sciences provide important potential to reinforce operational functionality, whether or not on the tactical edge or on installations all through the world. GM Protection welcomes the chance to assist this necessary undertaking and to assist transition our world protection and authorities clients.”
“We’re excited to work with GM Protection to check the Ultium Platform to find out its potential to be used in future warfighting purposes. PPEL has a protracted relationship with the DoD and the Workplace of Naval Analysis for testing the boundaries of batteries utilized in excessive energy purposes, and we’re in a singular place to guage this know-how and make suggestions for future use circumstances,” mentioned David Wetz, a professor {of electrical} engineering at UTA and director of the PPEL.
“As a Carnegie R-1 college, UTA is dedicated to working with trade to raised develop and perceive the potential of latest know-how. This collaboration between PPEL, GM Protection and the DoD is not going to solely enhance our nation’s army capabilities, but additionally provides to our workforce improvement efforts producing subsequent era engineers who will remedy our nation’s advanced issues,” mentioned Peter Crouch, dean of UTA’s School of Engineering.
GM Protection beforehand introduced its participation within the Protection Innovation Unit’s Jumpstart for Superior Battery Standardization (JABS) undertaking. Much like EEVBEDE, JABS is designed to guage and take a look at excessive voltage battery techniques to optimize industrial applied sciences. GM Protection offered a prototype of a battery system primarily based on GM’s Ultium Platform for the undertaking. Underneath the identical contract, GM Protection demonstrated mission energy capabilities by integrating a high-voltage battery pack into a light-weight tactical utility car. Key learnings from JABS will assist inform the combination necessities of future battery electrical protection options. To be taught extra about GM Protection tasks, go to www.gmdefensellc.com or comply with us on LinkedIn.
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