The first technical progress meeting of iModBatt took place in the Technocenter Renault, Guyancourt on last April 24-25.

As an initial meeting, there were many discussions focused on the matching of each partners’ targets in order to reach the defined common goals in the project. The activity in these first 6 months of the project was focused on commercial cells selection under technical, economic and ecological criteria (WP2). First steps for the electrical, thermal and mechanical design of the battery pack were given (WP3, WP4), but the core of this activity will be developed in following months. Recyclability, second use and reuse concepts (WP7) were launched but the development of those topics will be accelerated as soon as the battery pack design is closed. In the same way, it was still too early to discuss in detail the concerns related to the module automated assembly (WP5). Some discussion on the protocols to integrate the battery packs into the Renault Zoe and e.GO Life vehicles was launched, whose steps will be defined along the project.

Hence, every partner showed their advances and also questions to be agreed by the whole Consortium. As a result, we achieved a useful picture of the Project and a working methodology. We also took a picture of the iModBatt team:

At the end of the second half-day of the meeting, it was planned a visit to the facilities of Renault, but the discussion took us more than expected and finally we had no time to do it. We will be back!!!