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Ionetic launches new system to help deliver savings in battery pack development costs

UK-based EV battery pack technology start-up Ionetic has unveiled a new software-accelerated, AI-supported development system called Arc that is aimed at delivering multi-million dollar savings in battery pack development costs while also halving time-to-market for custom battery packs.
Ionetic launches new system to help deliver savings in battery pack development costs
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Arc automates design and integrates pre-validated components into a fully end-to-end battery pack development system that enables the speedy delivery of cost-effective, performance-optimised battery solutions with less risk.

“As the push for electric vehicle adoption accelerates, OEMs need the right partners to bring competitive electrified vehicles to market as fast as possible” said James Eaton, CEO and Co-Founder of Ionetic. “Our Arc system allows us to provide OEMs with pre-validated, tailored solutions – enabling them to remove inefficient development processes, focus on vehicle innovation, and eliminate the usual bottlenecks of cost and time.”

Battery pack development is one of the most time- and cost-intensive challenges in bringing an EV to market, on-schedule and at an affordable price-point. OEMs needing between 100 and 10,000 battery packs a year are typically faced with a difficult choice: between expensive and time-consuming, highly bespoke battery packs; or low-performance off-the-shelf solutions – with neither option providing a compelling way for OEMs to launch electrified vehicles.

Ionetic has an AI-supported, end-to-end approach that unleashes the ability of EV OEMs to access high-performance custom battery packs without the usual costs and complexity. The Arc system enables the company to deliver batteries to OEMs that combine the best speed and affordability of off-the-shelf solutions with the flexibility and performance of bespoke designs – which reduces time, cost, and development challenges. The system achieves this by seamlessly integrating three elements: 

Software: A network of AI-accelerated design tools which remove manual, iterative human design engineering. Instead, Arc rapidly optimises, conceptualises and brings-to-life the battery pack’s design, facilitating significant time- and cost-reductions.

Hardware: Arc is built around a pre-defined design system, including a number of pre-validated systems and components, all whilst supporting multiple different cell formats. This reduces both programme risk and validation time, whilst remaining highly flexible.

Fabrication: Rather than requiring large up-front investment and bespoke manufacturing lines, Arc utilises an innovative, flexible manufacturing system. More akin to the approach taken by semiconductor fabricators, this allows Ionetic’s production facility to serve multiple different customers, without the time and costs typically required for new-line set-up. 

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