Why ACCELERATE?
Batteries power Europe’s energy transition. ACCELERATE brings physics-based models, AI-designed experiments and targeted lab tests together to make validation faster, without lowering the bar on safety.
A year of testing for every new cell.
Before a battery reaches the market, it is cycled, heated and abused in the lab until its ageing and failure modes are understood. That takes time, energy and test capacity Europe is short of.
of cycling and abuse testing before a new cell can be qualified.
qualification time, with models trained on a few targeted tests.
Model, test, simulate, validate.
Four steps turn a few weeks of targeted lab work into predictions that hold from a single cell to a full battery pack.
Model
Physics-based models describe how a cell ages under temperature, current and charge level.
Test where it matters
AI selects the few experiments that teach the model the most, instead of testing everything.
Simulate
Validated models run thousands of virtual test campaigns, from cell to module and pack.
Validate
Predictions are checked against real abuse and ageing tests before results are shared.
36 months, from cell to pack.
Kick-off
Consortium meeting in Neuchâtel
First models
Test protocols and first cell models
Validated models
Models checked against lab data
Module scale
Validation at module level
Demonstrators
Pack-level demonstrators
Final results
Open results and recommendations
