Evaluation of performance characteristics of various lithium-ion batteries for use in BEV application

The purpose of this paper is to assess the capabilities of commercial lithium-ion batteries for use in battery electric vehicles (BEV's). The evaluation criteria are based on a newly developed experimental methodology which describes the performance characteristics of different batteries of various chemistries. This methodology primarily permits the user to obtain the most important battery characteristics for charging and discharging, internal resistance, efficiency, Peukert constant, thermal stability during charge and discharge phases.