THE BRITE-EURAM LEAD-ACID ELECTRIC-VEHICLE BATTERY PROJECT - PROGRESSREPORT

As part of its first programme, the Advanced Lead-Acid Battery Consort ium has a US$4.4 million project assisted by European Community fundin g. This was initiated by the European members of the Consortium under the Brite-EuRam programme. At the Sixth Asian Battery Conference, an i nterim report was given on progress on eight of the ten tasks and, now that the project is in its final year, most of these have been comple ted. The principal objective of the project was to incorporate the fin dings of this work into demonstration batteries. These would then be t ested under the Eucar ECE-15 test regime and this part of the project is now well under way. This paper discusses the results of the researc h leading up to the design of the battery variants built for evaluatio n. It also attempts to identify the lessons which have been learnt fro m this complex programme involving 14 research partners as well as fiv e additional financial sponsors. (C) 1998 Published by Elsevier Scienc e S.A. All rights reserved.