As part of a new joint project, two companies and two academic institutes have got together with a single goal in mind: to improve battery performance in electric vehicles. The project partners hope that smart battery management will give a significant boost to the performance, safety, and service life of electric and hybrid vehicles. An

The PowerDriver project is a European Union funded collaborative research initiative involving major UK based end-user organizations Jaguar Land Rover Ltd and Rolls-Royce PLC together with supply chain  and research and development partners and universities. The project is focused on the conversion of energy from combustion engine exhaust gas into electricity utilizing thermo electric generator