October 08 – 09, 2025  |  Klettwitz, Germany

Program

Here you see a recap of the program of the The SafeBattery Experience 2024. As soon as the program of the 2025 conference is finalized, you will find it here.

Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Welcome
Rainer Hoffmann - carhs.training gmbh
 

Drivers for Future Battery Safety

Chair: Maren Finck - carhs.training gmbh
Battery Safety – A Holistic Approach in a Swappable World
Dr. Frank Kindermann - NIO GmbH
  • Introduction of NIO – its mission, its products, and its systematic approach
  • External safety measures on infrastructure level
  • Internal safety requirements of NIO’s batteries
 
Innovative Materials for Safe Battery Systems
Dr. Kim Dana Kreisköther - Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
  • Influences on battery safety like cell chemistry and battery design
  • Safety materials for EV-batteries
  • Application related testing procedure
 
Form Follows Function? How to Enable Rescue Operations.
Vera Hertler - Plant Fire Brigade Automotive
  • Insight into the practices of rescue & extrication teams in the context of electrified vehicles
  • Organisation of the fire service and its training using Germany as an example
  • Setting causes for thought for the design of rescue related vehicle functions
 

Current and Future Requirements

Chair: Maren Finck - carhs.training gmbh
EV BATTERY SAFETY: Testing, Regulations and Standards
Thomas Carl - Intertek Deutschland GmbH
  • Overview of current safety standards and regulations for electric vehicle batteries
  • International and national tests, standards and regulations that apply in Europe, North America and China
  • Specific processes for the homologation of high-voltage components and other relevant vehicle regulations
 
Safety Testing of Batteries: Current Status and Future Needs
Dr. Natalia Lebedeva - European Commission, Joint Research Centre
  • Development of test procedures for regulatory purposes for automotive and stationary applications
 
Battery Safety in Legal Requirements and Consumer Ratings
Jan Krewinkel - Mercedes-Benz AG
  • Overview of automotive-relevant core requirements in the field of thermal propagation
  • Fokus on current and future ratings and regulations
 

Safe Battery Concepts

Chair: Maren Finck - carhs.training gmbh
Comparison of Modular and Highly Integrated Battery Concepts With Respect to Loads on Cells
Dr. Johannes Fender, Dr. Simon Königs - BMW AG
  • Concept comparison of cell modules vs. Cell2Pack
  • Influence of the concepts on the properties of the storage system
  • Procedures and mechanisms for achieving comparable safety levels
 

Testing and Simulation

Chair: Dr.-Ing. Burkhard Eickhoff - carhs.training gmbh
SIMBAT: Combined Multi-Physics Battery Safety Model and Simulation for Pack Safety Assessment
Dr. Christoph Breitfuß, Alexander Kospach - Virtual Vehicle Research GmbH
  • Battery Safety
  • Coupled Multiphysics
  • Crash
  • Thermal Simulation,
  • Thermal Runaway Simulation
 
Simulation Models to Support the Design of Polymer-based Battery Housings against Thermal Runaway
Benjamin Schaufelberger - Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics, Ernst-Mach-Institut, EMI; Tobias Hall - Kautex Textron GmbH & Co. KG; Luis Otavio Cortes Magalhaes - Fraunhofer-Institut für Kurzzeitdynamik, Ernst-Mach-Institut, EMI
  • Motivating the simulation-based design of battery housings and derivation of requirements
  • Transferring the experimentally observed phenomenology during thermal runaway of pouch cells into simulation models
  • Capabilities and limitations of current modeling approach
 
How to Achieve noTP
Pascal Hermann - Farasis Energy Europe GmbH

 
Influence of Thermal Runaway Trigger on the Failing Behavior of Automotive Lithium-Ion Batteries
Dr. Andrey Golubkov - Virtual Vehicle Research GmbH
  • Factors influencing the failing behavior of a battery are discussed and results of failing state-of-the-art cells will be presented and discussed.
  • The focus will be on the comparison of trigger types and the influence of different settings for the same trigger type.
  • The results will be compared in the categories: thermal behavior, vent gas production and vent gas composition.
 
Sustainability in HV Battery Testing
Filip Klug - DEKRA Automobil GmbH
  • Overview of the possible testing techniques that can be used and how they fit into the sustainable world of testing technology
 
Introduction of the Live Demonstration Program at the Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics, Ernst-Mach-Institut
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Stefan Hiermaier, Dr.-Ing. Michael Dlugosch, Dr. Jens Fritsch - Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics, Ernst-Mach-Institut, EMI
 

What is happening in China?

Chair: Dr.-Ing. Burkhard Eickhoff - carhs.training gmbh
Battery Safety and Unconventional Layouts of Battery Cells for Mitigating Fire Risk of Electric Vehicle in Collision Accidents
Prof. Dr. Qing Zhou, Dr. Yong Xia - Tsinghua University
 
Electric Vehicle Fire Safety System
Dr. Chen Bin - CMVR - China Merchants Testing Vehicle Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd.
  • Current situation of electric vehicle fire safety technology
  • Electric Vehicle Fire Mechanisms
  • Electric vehicle fire prevention and control technology
 

 

Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Short Presentations on Testing and Simulation Technologies
Welcome to EMI and Safety Instructions
Dr. Jens Fritsch - Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics, Ernst-Mach-Institut, EMI
 
General Overview of Fraunhofer EMI Activities in the Field of Battery Safety Research
Dr.-Ing. Michael Dlugosch - Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics, Ernst-Mach-Institut, EMI
 

Experience
Battery Safety Testing
Dr. Sebastian Schopferer - Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics, Ernst-Mach-Institut, EMI
 
Strain-Rate Dependent Mechanical Characterization and Post Mortem Analysis
Mahesh Thalwaththe Gedara, Dr. Thomas Kisters - Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics, Ernst-Mach-Institut, EMI
 
In-situ X-ray Imaging
Jonas Pfaff - Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics, Ernst-Mach-Institut, EMI
 
Propagation Experiments and Numerical Simulation
Benjamin Schaufelberger - Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics, Ernst-Mach-Institut, EMI
 
Linear Accelerator and Synchrotron
Dr. rer. nat. Malte Kurfiß, Dr. Siegfried Nau - Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics, Ernst-Mach-Institut, EMI
 
X-Ray Car Crash
Philipp Bösl - Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics, Ernst-Mach-Institut, EMI
 
Using Laptops and Similar Devices Safely on Aircraft
Dr.-Ing. Simon Holz - Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics, Ernst-Mach-Institut, EMI
 
Holistic Solution for Monitoring High-Voltage Batteries in Crash Environments Using LoRaWAN: Combining Safety and Innovation
Marko Martic - Kistler Instrumente GmbH
 
Measurement Technology for Electric Vehicles in Real Driving Conditions
Matjaž Strniša - Dewesoft d.o.o.
 

End of the 2024 SafeBattery Experience

 

 

Day 2 of the event will take place at the Fraunhofer EMI test laboratories in Efringen-Kirchen and will focus on hands-on experience. Various test scenarios will be performed and examples of the optimum use of test technology in the various test setups will be demonstrated live.

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