Looking Forward Automobile reliability, safety and costs are holy grails that much has been said about. Improved battery testing helps designers and manufacturers achieve these goals, in the face of the great complexity that the modern electric automobile has grown to. Many new materials still are being tried to find optimum systems, addressing the growing array of standards. Battery testing involves high temperatures, low temperatures, thermal shock conditions, or cases where a battery may possibly vent or rupture. Thermal platforms and custom temperature chambers provide the environmental parameters needed to properly develop 2010EE_Kikusui.indd 1 The TotalTemp SD144-N Thermal Platform System makes use of the Synergy Nano Temperature Controller (left) and more easily manufacture or test battery systems. Accurate thermal simulations of stresses can be readily performed such as thermal shock or uneven heating/cooling as might be experienced with active or massive loads. Ordinary and extreme operating conditions as seen in Minneapolis in the winter, or Death Valley in the summer, must be verified and can be readily combined with other known stresses such as short circuit, excessive loads or user errors. 9/1/20 7:05 AM OCTOBER 2020 EVALUATIONENGINEERING.COM 27http://www.EVALUATIONENGINEERING.COM