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TWAICE battery analytics platform promises enormously valuable insights at every point in a battery’s lifecycle

Charged EVs

TWAICE is also working with TÜV Rheinland (Technical Inspection Association, a network of companies in Germany and Austria that test, inspect and certify technical systems, roughly similar to UL or Intertek) to build a test and certification system for used EV batteries. Charged : Tell us about the origins of the company.

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TU Graz team uses monocrystalline Si as Li-ion anode; integrated micro batteries for on-board sensors

Green Car Congress

Both internal mechanical stress and the dramatic expansion leads to structural damage especially after several charge-discharge cycles have been completed. Moreover, it is favorably to enduringly keep Si in the amorphous (a-Si) rather than in the crystalline state (c-Si) while the battery is subject to charging and discharging.

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