
Lead-Acid Batteries for Future Automobiles
- 1st Edition - February 21, 2017
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Jürgen Garche, Eckhard Karden, Patrick T. Moseley, David A. J. Rand
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 6 3 7 0 0 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 6 3 7 0 3 - 1
Lead-Acid Batteries for Future Automobiles provides an overview on the innovations that were recently introduced in automotive lead-acid batteries and other aspects of current r… Read more

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Request a sales quoteLead-Acid Batteries for Future Automobiles provides an overview on the innovations that were recently introduced in automotive lead-acid batteries and other aspects of current research. Innovative concepts are presented, some of which aim to make lead-acid technology a candidate for higher levels of powertrain hybridization, namely 48-volt mild or high-volt full hybrids.
Lead-acid batteries continue to dominate the market as storage devices for automotive starting and power supply systems, but are facing competition from alternative storage technologies and being challenged by new application requirements, particularly related to new electric vehicle functions and powertrain electrification.
- Presents an overview of development trends for future automobiles and the demands that they place on the battery
- Describes how to adapt LABs for use in micro and mild hybrid EVs via collector construction and materials, via carbon additives, via new cell construction (bipolar), and via LAB hybrids with Li-ion and supercap systems
- System integration of LABs into vehicle power-supply and hybridization concepts
- Short description of competitive battery technologies
The main audience is the R&D community ie, chemists, chemical engineers who must develop a LAB with high power, lifetime and low cost. The book mainly has a scientific character but it also gives practical guidelines for applications of LABs in hybrid cars, downsizing concepts and standards/tests
Part 1. Overview
1. Development trends for future automobiles and their demand on the battery
- 1.1. Lead–acid batteries in automobiles: still good enough?
- 1.2. Requirements in the automotive industry
- 1.3. Vehicle level requirements
- 1.4. Low-volt system topology options for advanced power supply and mild powertrain hybridization
- 1.5. Upcoming storage system requirements
- 1.6. Discussion
- List of abbreviations
2. Overview of batteries for future automobiles
- 2.1. General requirements for batteries in electric vehicles
- 2.2. Energy storage in lead–acid batteries
- 2.3. Alkaline batteries
- 2.4. High-temperature sodium batteries
- 2.5. Lithium-ion batteries
- 2.6. Power sources after Lithium-ion
- 2.7. Supercapacitors
- 2.8. Fuel cells
3. Lead–acid battery fundamentals
- 3.1. Principles of operation
- 3.2. Open-circuit voltage
- 3.3. Voltage during discharge and charge
- 3.4. Designs and manufacture
- 3.5. Charging
- 3.6. Heat management in lead–acid batteries
- 3.7. Failure modes and remedies
- 3.8. Capacity
- 3.9. Self-discharge
- 3.10. Dynamic charge-acceptance
- 3.11. Summing up
- Abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms
4. Current research topics for lead–acid batteries
- 4.1. Design and materials
- 4.2. Operating strategy
- 4.3. Battery monitoring
- 4.4. Dual battery systems
- 4.5. Discussion
Part 2. Battery Technology
5. Flooded starting-lighting-ignition (SLI) and enhanced flooded batteries (EFBs): State-of-the-art
- 5.1. History of lead–acid batteries in combustion engine cars
- 5.2. Board net architecture and car requirements on batteries
- 5.3. Flooded automotive battery design and production technologies: status and latest improvements
- 5.4. Market trends
- Abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms
6. Automotive absorptive glass-mat lead–acid batteries: State of the art
- 6.1. Lead–acid batteries in vehicle electrical systems
- 6.2. Global standardization of automotive AGM batteries
- 6.3. Vehicle systems: voltages and battery technologies
- 6.4. Launch of automotive AGM batteries
- 6.5. Start–stop: factor of success for AGM batteries
- 6.6. Advantages of AGM over flooded automotive batteries
- 6.7. Cycling endurance of AGM batteries
- 6.8. Capability for dynamic charge-acceptance
- 6.9. Packaging in vehicles: heat-resilience of AGM batteries
- 6.10. Future applications for AGM batteries
- 6.11. Replacement of spent AGM batteries
- 6.12. Summary: automotive AGM batteries
- Abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms
7. Performance-enhancing materials for lead–acid battery negative plates
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. Expanders
- 7.3. Structural influences
- 7.4. Challenge of high-rate partial state-of-charge duty
- 7.5. Addition of carbon
- 7.6. Types of battery configuration
- 7.7. Understanding the carbon effect
- 7.8. Best choice of carbon
- Abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms
8. Positive active-materials for lead–acid battery plates
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. Operating principles
- 8.3. Positive plate construction
- 8.4. Manufacturing process
- 8.5. Failure modes and remedies
- 8.6. Future developments
- Abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms
9. Current-collectors for lead–acid batteries
- 9.1. Introduction
- 9.2. Reactions at the surface of the positive grid
- 9.3. Antimony-free grids
- 9.4. Lead–calcium alloys
- 9.5. Tin additions to pure lead
- 9.6. Tin additions to lead–calcium alloys
- 9.7. Bookmould-cast lead–calcium–tin grids
- 9.8. Rolled lead–calcium–tin grids
- 9.9. Corrosion of lead–calcium–tin alloy grids
- 9.10. Grids for elevated temperatures
- 9.11. Spiral-wound grids
- 9.12. Novel grids designs
- 9.13. Composite grids
- 9.14. Thin grids
- 9.15. Straps and posts
- Abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms
10. Alternative current-collectors
- 10.1. Introduction
- 10.2. Function, design and characteristic parameters of lead–acid battery current-collectors
- 10.3. Metallized injection moulded plastic grids
- 10.4. Copper and aluminium grids
- 10.5. Titanium current-collectors
- 10.6. Alternative current-collectors based on fibrous materials
- 10.7. Foam grids
- 10.8. Carbon honeycomb grids
- 10.9. Conclusion
- Abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms
11. Cell design for high-rate operation
- 11.1. The reason why we need high-rate operation and why it is so critical and challenging
- 11.2. Fundamental theoretical considerations about high-rate operation
- 11.3. Key parameters for high-rate plate design
- 11.4. Alternative plate and cell designs for high-rate operation
- 11.5. Additional plate and cell design parameters and their impact
- 11.6. Outlook for the lead–acid design for further advanced high-rate applications
- List of abbreviations
12. Towards sustainable road transport with the UltraBattery™
- 12.1. Most promising and affordable designs of hybrid electric vehicle
- 12.2. Failure mechanism of lead–acid batteries under high-rate partial state-of-charge duty
- 12.3. Improving the cycleability of lead–acid batteries under high-rate partial state-of-charge duty
- 12.4. The UltraBattery™
- 12.5. The UltraBattery™ tomorrow: challenges and prospects
- 12.6. Concluding remarks
- Abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms
Part 3. Application Technology
13. Lead–acid battery operation in micro-hybrid and electrified vehicles
- 13.1. Introduction
- 13.2. Storage system requirements and operating strategies
- 13.3. Charging strategies
- 13.4. Lead–acid batteries in electric and hybrid vehicles
14. Monitoring techniques for 12-V lead–acid batteries in automobiles
- 14.1. Historic overview towards battery sensors
- 14.2. Requirements of battery sensors
- 14.3. Lead–acid battery monitoring functions
- 14.4. Algorithms for battery state detection of lead–acid batteries
- 14.5. Validation of battery state detection output signals
- 14.6. Field experience
- 14.7. Outlook on future development
15. Dual battery systems for 12-V automotive power supply
- 15.1. Outline
- 15.2. Drivers for dual storage
- 15.3. Requirements for a dual storage power-supply system
- 15.4. Potential topologies
- 15.5. Integration of the auxiliary battery into the vehicle and its electrical system
- 15.6. Market trends
16. Basics of lead–acid battery modelling and simulation
- 16.1. Introduction
- 16.2. Levels of battery modelling
- 16.3. Specific challenges for modelling lead–acid batteries
- 16.4. Models for electrical performance
- 16.5. Models for battery ageing
- Abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms
17. Batteries for heavy trucks
- 17.1. Introduction
- 17.2. Dimensions
- 17.3. Key requirements
- 17.4. Electrical network voltage for heavy trucks
- 17.5. Truck battery design considerations
- 17.6. Advanced truck battery technologies
- 17.7. Advanced system integration of truck batteries
- 17.8. Summary
- Abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms
18. Lead–acid batteries for E-bicycles and E-scooters
- 18.1. Introduction
- 18.2. Description of electric two wheelers
- 18.3. Market
- 18.4. Characteristics of electric two wheelers
- 18.5. Battery
- 18.6. Summary
- Abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms
Part 4. Product Life Cycle
19. Standards and tests for lead–acid batteries in automotive applications
- 19.1. Standardization organizations and different levels of standardization
- 19.2. Obligations of standards and different kind of standards
- 19.3. Standardization in different regions and list of applicable standards for lead–acid batteries in automotive applications
- 19.4. Procedure to publish a new standard
- 19.5. Battery sizes in comparison and trends
- 19.6. Comparison of typical lead–acid battery requirements and test procedures
- 19.7. External standards in comparison to original equipment specifications
20. Recycling concepts for lead–acid batteries
- 20.1. Introduction
- 20.2. The process
- 20.3. Removal of sulfur
- 20.4. Battery breaking
- 20.5. Lead smelting
- 20.6. Lead refining
- 20.7. Electrochemical practice
- 20.8. Recent developments
- 20.9. Conclusion
- Abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms
Part 5. Outlook
21. Lead–acid batteries for future automobiles: Status and prospects
- 21.1. Tomorrow's automobile batteries: drivers for change
- 21.2. Electrified vehicles and the demands placed on their batteries
- 21.3. Restrictions on the use of lead
- 21.4. Can lead–acid battery technology keep pace with increasing electrification of vehicles?
- 21.5. Closing remarks
- Abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms
- Edition: 1
- Published: February 21, 2017
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 706
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780444637000
- eBook ISBN: 9780444637031
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Jürgen Garche
Jürgen Garche, graduated in chemistry at the Dresden University of Technology (DTU) in Germany in 1967. He was awarded his PhD in theoretical electrochemistry in 1970 and his habilitation in applied electrochemistry in 1980 from the same university. He worked at the DTU in the Electrochemical Power Sources Group for many years in different projects, mainly related to conventional batteries, before he moved 1991 to the Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research (ZSW) in Ulm, where he was, until 2004, the Head of the Electrochemical Energy Storage and Energy Conversion Division.
He was Professor of Electrochemistry at Ulm University and Guest Professor at Shandong University – China, 2005, Sapienca University Roma - Italy, 2009, 2013, 2016, and 2023, TUM-CREATE – Singapore, 2014, 2015, 2016- 2016, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics - China, 2016, CNR Institute for Advanced Energy Technologies, Messina - Italy, 2019. After he retired from the ZSW he founded in 2004 the consulting firm Fuel Cell and Battery Consulting (FCBAT). Since 2015 he is senior professor at Ulm University. He has published more than 300 papers, 10 patents, and 11 books, among others as editor-in-chief of the first edition of Encyclopedia of Electrochemical Power Sources. He is listed in “World’s most Influential Scientific Minds” by Thomas Reuters (2014) and in the book “Profiles of 93 Influential Electrochemists” (2015).
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Eckhard Karden
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Patrick T. Moseley
From1995 he was Manager of Electrochemistry at the International Lead Zinc Research Organization in North Carolina and Program Manager of the Advanced Lead-Acid Battery Consortium. In 2005 he also became President of the Consortium.
Dr. Moseley was one of the editors of the Journal of Power Sources for 25 years from 1989 to 2014. In 2008 he was awarded the Gaston Planté medal by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
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