Breathe Discover is a battery cell discovery platform. It helps OEM engineering teams explore millions of physically feasible battery cell designs. Furthermore, it guides teams based on the needs of a future vehicle platform. Crucially, this happens before cell formats, requirements, and suppliers are locked in.
Breathe Discover enables battery cell design exploration and virtual prototyping before supplier selection. As a result, teams gain a physics-based view of the full design space.
Why cell discovery matters
Battery cells drive range, fast-charging performance, durability, and cost per kWh. However, teams often treat them as fixed inputs early in vehicle programmes.
As a result, OEM teams evaluate only a small number of supplier cells. They then plug these into vehicle simulations and optimise around what already exists. Consequently, learning is slow, iteration is expensive, and critical trade-offs emerge too late.
Therefore, Breathe Discover pulls learning forward. It supports early-stage battery cell decisions when leverage is highest and mistakes are cheapest.
What Breathe Discover is
Breathe Discover is a physics-based battery cell discovery platform. It supports OEM engineering teams at the pre-concept and early concept stages of vehicle development.
The platform represents a vast battery cell design space. It contains millions of physically feasible battery cell designs. Furthermore, material-level electrochemical models generate these designs. Real manufacturing and operating limits constrain them.
Rather than starting from supplier datasheets, teams use vehicle-guided battery cell design. This allows vehicle intent to define which regions of the design space are viable, marginal, or fundamentally constrained. As a result, engineers explore battery architecture trade-offs without relying on black-box assumptions.
Breathe Discover in practice
Start from your product requirements
Engineers begin by defining system-level goals and constraints. These typically include performance and energy density targets, fast-charge time and power limits,battery cost per kWh sensitivity, durability and lifetime risk tolerance, and form factor and packaging constraints. Together, these inputs define how the battery cell design space is explored.
Explore trade-offs and constraints early
Using Breathe Discover, engineers explore how different regions of the physics-based battery cell design space behave under real-world conditions.
Specifically, teams can explore millions of physically feasible cells rather than a handful from supplier roadmaps. They also set vehicle targets to see which candidates deliver.
Furthermore, they find the performance frontier and identify where strategic dead ends begin. They can also quantify cost versus performance at system level before the platform is set.
Finally, teams export cell specs, models, and bill of materials, and request cell prototypes. As a result, constraints become explicit early rather than emerging through late-stage testing.
Narrow to high-potential cell candidates
From millions of physically feasible battery cell designs, teams narrow toward families of high-potential cell concepts. These align with the vehicle platform and its specific requirements.
The goal is not to identify a single best cell. Instead, teams converge on viable battery cell concept selection. This justifies deeper simulation, supplier engagement, and downstream engineering work.
What teams often learn early
Teams regularly discover which battery constraints are cell-driven versus system-driven. In addition, they identify where conservative assumptions hide viable operating margin.
Furthermore, they learn how small battery architecture trade-offs compound at vehicle level.
They also clarify which battery cell concept selection paths justify investment and which represent long-term risk. As a result, this early learning helps teams focus effort where it has the greatest impact.
From discovery to deeper analysis
Breathe Discover operates at the earliest stage of battery development. At this stage, the goal is to understand which cell architectures can realistically deliver the required vehicle performance.
Engineers explore a vast physics-based design space of physically feasible cells. Teams score these directly against vehicle targets such as range, charging, and cost. Rather than starting from supplier datasheets, they identify the cell concepts that enable the best vehicle outcomes. Furthermore, Breathe Discover makes vehicle-level investigation possible at a phase where conventional tools cannot. Consequently, engineering effort focuses on the cell architectures that truly shape platform performance.
Built for system-level workflows
Breathe Discover integrates directly into existing OEM workflows for system-level battery design search. Selected designs can be exported in several formats.
These include cell design specification sheets, cost estimates and bill of materials, equivalent circuit models for vehicle simulation, physics-based DFN models for controls and estimator development, and requests for physical prototype manufacturing.
Therefore, early-stage battery cell decisions flow directly into system and vehicle development.
Credibility through physics-based design
The value of battery cell discovery platforms depends on physical realism. Breathe Discover grounds every virtual cell in physics-based battery cell design.
Furthermore, every cell represents a physically feasible battery cell design. Trade-offs and limitations are transparent, so engineers understand both opportunity and constraint.
As a result, teams make confident early decisions without overstating certainty.
Where Breathe Discover fits
Breathe Discover supports the very start of battery development workflows. Teams use it to explore which battery cell architectures could support a future vehicle platform.
In addition, it guides early-stage battery cell decisions and internal requirements.
Furthermore, it informs supplier engagement with evidence from vehicle-guided battery cell discovery. Finally, it aligns teams early around battery architecture trade-offs. It is a foundation for better early decisions, not a replacement for detailed simulation or engineering judgement.
Explore Breathe Discover
If you are defining a future vehicle platform and want to understand which battery cell directions are worth pursuing before committing, Breathe Discover can help you see further, earlier.