Common Motors has acquired Israel-based battery startup ALGOLiON for an undisclosed quantity, with the intention of growing new methods to trace EV battery well being.

ALGOLiON has developed software program that makes use of knowledge from EV battery administration programs to assist establish anomalies in particular person cells, which might present early detection of thermal runaway occasions and different battery failures, based on a GM press launch.

Common Motors’ BEV3 platform and Ultium batteries

“The software program makes use of refined algorithms to establish miniscule adjustments that would affect battery well being weeks sooner than different strategies in use right now with out extra {hardware} or sensors all whereas the battery continues to be working correctly,” GM claims.

This feels like a information base which may have helped the corporate diagnose a difficulty with Chevy Bolt EV batteries that created a hearth danger faster, and maybe in a less expensive method. At one level, the recall treatment concerned putting in battery well being monitoring.

The automaker did not focus on particular plans for deployment of this software program, however famous that it’ll start integrating ALGOLiON’s operations with its personal. ALGOLiON staff, together with the startup’s founders, will stay primarily based in Israel, becoming a member of greater than 850 GM staff at a tech heart there.

GM Ultium battery – cell stacking

GM has boasted that its wi-fi battery administration system provides a higher degree of monitoring throughout the battery and permits it to extra simply scale the tech or use totally different cells. Trying forward, GM is betting on silicon anode battery tech, in addition to lithium-metal chemistry.

The automaker might certainly be profiting from battery well being monitoring because it turns into extra versatile with cells within the close to future. That features not simply the corporate’s core Ultium LLC cells but in addition these from an upcoming GM-Samsung plant.