Battery knowledge · Modules, packs and battery management

AB battery system

A pack that integrates two cell chemistries under one BMS — sodium-ion with lithium-ion, say, or LFP with NMC — so that one type covers the other’s weakness, such as poor cold-weather power or low energy density. CATL used the name at its 2021 sodium-ion launch; the BMS must model both voltage curves to estimate SOC.

Also called
AB battery pack, mixed-chemistry pack

Example

Modules, packs and battery management: an example situation

Twelve 3.6 V, 5 Ah cells in 6s2p give 21.6 V, 10 Ah and 216 Wh nominally before other restrictions.

Read AB battery system alongside Battery management system in this context. The electronics and software that keep a battery inside its safe window: measuring every cell voltage and many temperatures, estimating SOC and SOH, balancing cells, computing current limits, controlling the contactors and reporting over the vehicle network.

Use in Lemonergy

Make series/parallel architecture explicit.

This is a reference concept. No executable Lemonergy block has been verified for this term.

References & further reading

Further reading on this topic

These sources provide broader context; they are not presented as citations for every statement in this entry.

  1. Extended Kalman filtering for battery management systems of LiPB-based HEV battery packs: Part 2. Modeling and identification

    Gregory L. Plett · Journal of Power Sources · 2004

    Topic background · Battery charge balance, open-circuit voltage, ohmic loss, polarization dynamics and model identification; parameters require cell-specific data.

  2. Getting Started with the BQ76925

    Texas Instruments · 2019

    Topic background · A concrete BMS analog front-end example: cell voltage, current, temperature measurement and MCU integration.