When choosing the right battery for an electric vehicle, it is not always easy to select the best option. Given different solutions and proposals, which is the most convenient? Personalization is a factor that can sometimes be overlooked, yet it is crucial. Why choose a custom battery manufacturer?
**The importance of personalized batteries
Whether it's a nickel-cadmium, nickel-iron or lithium battery, a generic solution will never be optimal.
One of the most significant advantages of working with a custom battery manufacturer is that a battery can be designed to exactly fit the needs of the electric vehicle in question.
This means that you can optimize:
- The size and capacity of the battery to adapt to the geometry and loading capacity of the vehicle.
- Battery chemistry for greater efficiency and longer life.
- The specific needs of more or less energy necessary
Another advantage of working with a custom battery manufacturer is that a battery can be designed that has higher performance and greater charging capacity. This can result in a greater driving range for the electric vehicle, which can make it more attractive to sell.
Customization can also include the ability to integrate the battery into the vehicle chassis in a more efficient and safer way.
Our method of creating custom batteries focuses simply and solely on feasibility analysis. Our team of engineers evaluates what needs the client has, in terms of cycles, application sector, voltage and capacity required. The key is to be able to design a custom solution that provides the exact power your application needs, no more, no less.
Custom Lithium Ion Batteries
In most of the projects in which we have carried out our professional activity, we have designed ad hoc batteries for each client.
To do this, we analyze the feasibility of the specific needs by our engineers.
- Work cycles
- Application sector
- Tension
- Capacity
This way we ensure that we provide the necessary energy for each energy solution (electric vehicle).
The thousands of lithium batteries we have produced in the last decade have followed these customization phases.
What do we understand by batteries with a modular system?
There are certain specific requirements that make it even more important to be able to adapt and customize the product.Sometimes it happens that in some applications, the vehicle manufacturer needs to provide its machine with different autonomy and the use of modular batteries can solve these needs.
Batteries with a modular system are those that are made up of several individual
One of the great advantages of batteries with a modular system is that they are scalable. The system can be reduced or expanded depending on the changing needs of the vehicle. By having independent components, they can be added or removed, used or deactivated, as required.
With the modular system, the vehicle manufacturer could prepare the system with a standard range and add modules to increase the range only for customers with more intense use.Furthermore, with this operation, a customer could purchase the basic solution and later request the insertion of other modules in parallel. In this way, the investment is made in phases, the risk is lower and the costs can be progressive.
This is true as long as there is space to install other modules. That is why personalization is key, to be able to analyze each case separately and optimize it.
In summary, these are the big advantages of a module-based custom battery solution:
- Unique battery code
- Easy setup
- Simplified supply chain
- Simple and quick installation
- Convenient battery capacity management
Modularity limitations that customization resolves
The low dimensional flexibility of the modular system can be a problem in certain cases.
Modular lithium batteries use several parallel storage packs within the application indistinctly, because each battery is identical to the other with equal and standardized dimensions.
Sometimes this can cause problems, because it requires an adaptation to the side of the car, and sometimes mechanical limitations do not allow such adjustment.
Here's another good reason to choose a custom battery manufacturer. Modularization does not become a problem even in these cases.
If the geometry of the battery can be modeled to fit the spaces of the electric vehicle, without having to modify it internally, this becomes a great advantage. In this way, the space problem is solved without having to lose the general advantage that modularity offers.
In addition to the mechanical aspect, custom battery packs can be tailored to the machine's electrical needs.
Like for example:
- Integrating multiple inputs and outputs
- Providing special functions, such as preload or insulation controls.
When working with non-customized modular batteries, this tends to be avoided, since the costs would be multiplied for each module. Therefore, there would be less flexibility in specific interconnections and functions.
Whenever low-capacity lithium batteries are manufactured and several are placed in parallel, the fixed costs of each battery must be taken into account.
For example, a 10 kWh battery has the same electronics as a 20 kWh battery pack. Therefore, if we use 2 10 kWh battery packs, all the BMS, security, communication, etc. functions. are doubled, which could increase the cost of all energy.
In summary, these are the big disadvantages of modular batteries that can be solved with custom battery solutions:- Low dimensional flexibility
- Less flexibility of interconnections and special functions
- Fixed costs
- Big changes in the structure of the machine
We adapt the batteries to each client and need
Our role at NCPOWER is to provide our clients with the optimal tailored solutions. Likewise, with our criteria and experience, we can advise in each case, to create the personalized batteries that the client needs.
Analyzing every detail of your vehicle can make a difference and is essential to giving life to the perfect lithium battery for you:
- The type of application
- Your consumption
- Dimensions
- The spaces
- The weight
- The context
- Methods of use
In summary, all this data is crucial and on this basis we can study each need and respond with the most appropriate electrification project.
Our know-how as lithium battery manufacturers with a long history within the sector allows us to offer high value to each client. In this sense, NCPOWER occupies a strategic role for all those manufacturers that are entering into the electrical conversion of their own vehicles.
Our team of engineers and specialized technicians are immediately at your side to decide together the ideal option for your fleet.
Are you electrifying your vehicle and need to know which battery solution is best for you? Contact us and we will advise you, offering you personalized batteries so that you can make a good investment.