Albatross 5th General Assembly held in Amsterdam

The 5th General Assembly meeting of the Albatross Project H2020 was held on 5-6 July in Amsterdam. Individual members from the consortium attended the two-day meeting and workshop. The assembly was a great opportunity for the Albatross Project H2020 partners to define the essential points that will ensure a proper application of the developments produced so far.

Dr Fahim Chowdhury (Director) and Dr Mohammad Azizur Rahman (Associate Director-Technical), attended the meeting on behalf of the Technovative Solutions LTD (TVS) team.

The first day of the meeting consisted of presentations of each work package’s progress since the previous general assembly.

TVS is leading work package 7, ‘Life Cycle Analysis and Sustainability’ of the project. The key deliverables of the package include the economic and environmental impact of a novel approach, the development and population of the database, the development of a knowledge-based engineering (KBE) design automation system for eco-design and the development of sustainability mode. The development of a Battery passport is going to be one of the milestones of the project that TVS is developing.

As a part of TVS’s activities, Dr. Fahim Chowdhury updated the consortium members about the overall progress of the WP7 and the concept and details of the Battery Passport for Electrical Vehicles and the Digital EV Battery passport in the meeting. The future application of the Battery Passport and the next steps with Electric Vehicle Original Equipment Manufacturer (EV OEM) (Mercedes-Benz Türk A.Ş., Cleantron cleantech batteries, Yesilova Group, and others) were also discussed in detail.

The second day of the meeting was about detailed discussions on module manufacturing; battery thermal management system (BTMS) development and integration; assembly and testing planning; logistics stream sequence; and dissemination & communication.

About the Project: ALBATROSS addresses the needs of the European Electric and Hybrid-Electric passenger vehicle market by overcoming driver concerns relating to battery range and anxiety, cost, long-term reliability, and excessive charging times. ALBATROSS will develop an integrated approach based on smart batteries combined with lightweight designs.

For more information about the project: https://albatross-h2020.eu/

This project has received funding from the European Union's H2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 963580.