These highly integrated 10s-20s smart BMS chips with an integrated microcontroller (MCU) and cell balancing save more than 50% of PCB space, while lowering the total bill-of-materials cost by 30%, ...

In battery-management systems (BMS), connectivity to the host, the charger, other externally connected devices, and the battery’s components is becoming essential. How many CAN networks can be used by ...

LG Innotek, a unit of battery supplier and electronics giant LG, has introduced a wireless battery management system (BMS) it claims will boost EV range. Introduced in February, and first spotted by ...

Earlier BMS lacked microcontrollers, advanced sensors, and data-processing capabilities, meaning they couldn't monitor each cell in detail, estimate State of Charge (SoC) or State of Health (SoH), or ...

The high-voltage lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery packs in electric vehicles have high energy density and are long-lasting. But they also tend to be fragile. Mechanical stress or damage caused by a crash ...