Metis Engineering
“India Market Support to global Automotive Companies”
Innovative ◦ Green ◦ Safe
Metis Engineering, a UK-based company was founded by Joe Holdsworth as an outcome of being involved in remarkable projects such as the Bloodhound SSC and the Electroflight project in partnership with Rolls Royce Aerospace to ensure battery safety for the world’s fastest electric airplane. Metis designed the innovative Battery Safety Sensor, detecting off-gassing incidents and preventing thermal events, which was successfully commercialized into Cell Guard.
In addition to early detection of thermal events, continuous monitoring during their first life also leads to a better second life valuation and TCO of battery packs.
Jaguar iPace in the USA
(credit Electrek)
Paris Bus catches fire due to battery pack failure
(credit Daily Express)
Detection of Cell Venting/Off-gassing:
Cell Guard is designed to monitor the environmental conditions of an electric vehicle battery pack and detect cell issues before it goes into thermal runaway. More importantly, it ensures passengers are alerted before the thermal runaway leads to a hazardous situation.
It does so by measuring Pressure and Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) to detect cell venting, which can then be used to provide an Audio/Visual alert to the passengers for prompt egress from the vehicle and nearby areas, thereby also complying with local and global regulations such as AIS038, AIS156, and UN-ECE R100.
Second life valuation and TCO:
Cell Guard is also capable of monitoring parameters over and above those monitored by the BMS such as humidity, dew point to detect water ingress and detect shock to assess impact damage due to crashes. Continuous monitoring of the battery packs by Cell guard during the first life also leads to a better second life valuation and improves TCO substantially.
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