SoH Fleet European project (lead by ACTIA) launched, with focus on optimizing electric bus battery health

A project has been launched in Europe aiming to improve electric bus fleet management by optimizing battery aging analysis using the State of Health (SoH) parameter.

Named SoH Fleet project, is led by ACTIA Automotive (France) in collaboration with CARNET (Spain), Keolis Blois (France), and TMB (Spain), and it is supported by EIT Urban Mobility, a European Union initiative.

SoH Fleet project involves ACTIA, CARNET, Keolis, TMB

Within the project, ACTIA is developing an AI-based solution to provide real-time SoH estimation. The research-focused open hub CARNET (that stands for Cooperative Automotive Research Network) is responsible for evaluating and optimizing pilot projects. The project is being tested in two cities: Barcelona, where TMB applies the solution to 10 electric buses in a dense urban setting, and Blois, in France, where Keolis Blois tests it on 6 electric buses in a smaller network.

Expected outcomes include a 20% reduction in vehicle maintenance costs and a 20% extension of battery life. The project will advance the technology from TRL7 to TRL9, making it ready for large-scale deployment, ACTIA states.