WAE Technologies (WAE) has launched Elysia, its battery intelligence software offering designed to unlock significant improvements in the life, safety, usable energy, power, and rapid charging times of any battery system. Elysia draws on WAE’s experience in high-performance batteries, gleaned from the sole supply of batteries to electric motorsport series, as well as the design and development of batteries for electric hypercars and mining trucks.
This unique expertise, amassed over more than a decade, has seen WAE push the limits of performance, longevity and charging in harsh environments, with software playing a vital role.
Elysia is the first mass market software offering from WAE, combining a suite of innovations that can unlock the potential of a battery. The improved insight and control provided by Elysia reduces an OEMs need to oversize or overengineer battery systems, enabling them to be lighter, cheaper and more sustainable.
The core offering is based around two key products:
- Elysia Embedded is a suite of battery management algorithms, which run locally on the Battery Management System (BMS)—for example directly on an EV’s battery or on a stationary energy storage system. Its BMS algorithms help OEMs to increase vehicle range, enable faster charging, and maximize battery power.Whereas conventional battery management systems traditionally require extensive data from testing and limits specified by cell suppliers to build software that controls how the battery is used, Elysia Embedded’s algorithms use intelligent physics-informed models. While this approach has formed an integral part of WAE’s motorsport capability, these algorithms have been designed to run on standard low-cost chips as typically found in mass-market battery management systems.In applications to date, this has shown the ability to bring up to a 30% increase in battery life and 10% potential increase in battery range, while also enabling dramatically reduced fast charge times and higher peak power output when compared to traditional battery management algorithms.
- Elysia Cloud Platform is a cloud-based system which uses proprietary digital twin technology. It helps OEMs, fleet owners and battery asset financiers turn data into actionable insights, designed to enable these customers to forecast and extend battery life, enhance 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 revolutionise the second-life battery market.
Elysia is built upon a combination of AI and data science, fused with electrochemical modelling expertise, while being grounded in unrivalled real-world battery engineering and development experience.
