Rimac Energy takes new battery architecture into stationary storage systems
European supercar maker Rimac has launched a subsidiary focussed on stationary storage for energy grid systems with local production and wireless technology.
“Over the past 18 months, Rimac Energy has been working behind the scenes to create state-of-the-art stationary energy storage systems, which provide leading performance and capability at highly competitive system and installation cost,” said Wasim Sarwar Dilov, director. He was head of research and advanced engineering at Rimac Technology and a battery specialist at Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE).
“We started Rimac Energy to accelerate Europe’s transition toward a sustainably powered future to make the greatest possible positive impact,” he said.
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Rimac merged with VW subsidiary Buggatti in 2021, spinning out an automotive battery subsidiary that also makes batteries in Europe. Now Rimac Energy aims to use that expertise for stationary storage systems based on a novel battery architecture developed fully in-house and produced in Europe.
This architecture will provide greater efficiency, cycle life, and availability at lower system footprint and reduced installation effort, says Sarwar, coupled with remote management to boost the visibility of battery system performance and warranty. It will also scale from 200kW up to GWs of storage.
Parent company Rimac has worked closely with Analog Devices (ADI) on wireless battery management system technology that allows the battery cells from the hypercars to be used in other applications, particularly stationary storage.
One of the target areas is high power charging for trucks using a battery buffer to avoid the grid infrastructure limitations. The fully integrated system can be scaled up to 1.500 kW and 2.000 Vdc.
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