A good starting point: the conductive thermal path from the cell to the cooling plate.
There’s a thermal bottleneck somewhere in that pack.įinding a pack’s thermal bottleneck requires diving into its battery & module construction. Recent fast-charging tests and performance driving experiences have shown mediocre fast-charging speeds and early-onset thermal-related reduced-propulsion issues during aggressive track-style driving. Take the Ford Mustang Mach-E fully electric crossover. Goldratt’s constraint theory can also help isolate an under-performing thermal system’s capacity limits. 'A non-bottleneck is any resource whose capacity is greater than the demand placed on it.'Įli Goldratt revolutionized manufacturing production analysis with his “Theory of Constraints” view of prioritizing attention on the production “bottleneck” when production capacity cannot meet demand. 'A bottleneck is any resource whose capacity is equal to or less than the demand placed upon it.'
