battery thermal management

When the Ford Focus Electric debuts late in 2011, it will now have a feature in common with the Chevrolet Volt besides the LG Chem lithium polymer cells. Ford has confirmed that the Focus will use a liquid cooled battery pack with ...

One of the issues that automakers are going to have increasingly deal with in the coming years as vehicles get hybridized and electrified is thermal management of batteries. Currently, almost all hybrid vehicles are using air cooled battery packs although the upcoming Mercedes-Benz ML450 two-mode ...