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Breathe levels up VARTA’s Easy Blade battery series
Breathe - 28th June 2022
Breathe Battery Technologies announces a partnership with VARTA
Breathe Battery Technologies, the developer of physics-based battery management software, has announced a partnership with VARTA, the battery specialist and manufacturer, to significantly reduce the charging time of the VARTA Easy Blade Battery series and increase the amount of energy that can be stored in the cells.
Breathe Charge, the innovative adaptive charging software from Breathe, has been applied to the lithium-ion based battery VARTA Easy Blade 48V, which is primarily used in small and medium sized vehicles like AGVs or forklifts.
The Breathe Charge software is specifically designed for faster charging and improved safety. For the VARTA Easy Blade 48V, it has reduced the charging time of the battery by 27%*, saving 23 minutes, while also allowing storage of 3% more energy in the cells. In addition, the lifetime of the battery is always retained. The software can be applied to all battery versions of the Easy Blade battery series.
Dr Ian Campbell, CEO at Breathe comments, “we are living in a world where more and more applications are battery-powered, from the smartphones in our pockets to heavy industrial vehicles. Therefore, healthy fast charging is crucial to enabling the next generation of gains in uptime and productivity. VARTA is an incredibly forward-thinking company with a great history so it wanted a solution that could both reduce charge time and increase energy stored in its battery. We’re delighted to see Breathe Charge on the Easy Blade 48V system, providing significantly faster charging.”
In addition, Breathe provided VARTA with a different charging solution to increase the amount of energy added to the battery during charge, so that VARTA customers can benefit from more uptime, runtime and range. Alexander Abele, Strategic Product Manager at VARTA comments, “for all applications and devices which are powered by an independent energy source, the charging time and battery lifetime are always the crucial challenges which need to be managed.
Our engineers, together with the experts from Breathe, were able to address exactly these points in different multi-step charge profiles.
The software is available from now on and applicable to our other customised battery solutions. We’re happy that, together with Breathe, we are now able to provide our customers with an even better battery system for their future-driven applications.”
Breathe and VARTA now want to expand the one-year-old partnership and explore opportunities for the wider uptake of the healthy fast charging technologies.
Faster charging results using Breathe Charge:
VARTA EasyBlade charging time reduced by 27% to 80% state of charge / SOC.
VARTA EasyBlade charging time reduced by 43% to 50% state of charge / SOC.
VARTA EasyBlade charging time reduced by 16% to 100% state of charge / SOC.
* relative to previous VARTA Easy Blade 48V performance
“We’re happy that, together with Breathe, we are now able to provide our customers with an even better battery system for their future-driven applications.”
Alexander Abele, Strategic Product Manager at VARTA
About Breathe
Breathe is more than a battery performance company. We help you do more with the power you have. Because we believe an electrified future requires superior customer experiences.
Our physics-based battery management software helps the worlds most iconic electric vehicle and consumer electronics brands deliver products with faster charging, greater cycle life and zero compromise on safety.
We dream that one day everyone will breathe clean air. That's why we make batteries better.
Our physics-based battery management software helps the worlds most iconic electric vehicle and consumer electronics brands deliver products with faster charging, greater cycle life and zero compromise on safety.
We dream that one day everyone will breathe clean air. That's why we make batteries better.
About Varta
VARTA AG produces and markets a comprehensive battery portfolio from microbatteries, household batteries, energy storage systems to customer-specific battery solutions for a variety of applications and, as a technology leader, sets industry standards in important areas. As the parent company of the group, it operates in the business segments "Lithium-Ion Solutions & Microbatteries" and "Household Batteries".
The "Lithium-Ion Solutions & Microbatteries" segment focuses on microbatteries, lithium-ion coin power, lithium-ion round cells (lithium-ion large cells) and the lithium-ion battery pack business. Through intensive research and development, VARTA sets global standards in many areas of lithium-ion technology and microbatteries, making it a recognized innovation leader in the important growth markets of lithium-ion technology and in primary hearing aid batteries. The “Household Batteries” segment comprises the battery business for end customers, including household batteries, accumulators, chargers, portable power (power banks) and lights as well as energy storage devices.
The VARTA AG Group currently employs almost 4,700 people. With five production and manufacturing facilities in Europe and Asia as well as sales centers in Asia, Europe and the USA, the operating subsidiaries of VARTA AG are currently active in over 75 countries around the world.