By laying emphasis on the inability of BEB manufacturers to “define their requirements,” Kras is referring to factors that determine the charging infrastructure of an EV—starting from a variant of cell, charging mode, thermal system, charge port, power electronics controller, and more. This is why ICPT S.A. doesn’t compromise on the process of engaging with manufacturers and end-users before designing a specific battery system/ solution. “Unlike with passenger EVs, cost-of-ownership is a huge challenge for EV commercial vehicles since they need a battery system that can efficiently last over 10 years.
The manufacturing process which follows the countless rounds of customer interaction and data exchange is “the easy part,” per Kras. With the aid of his team of 160 highly-specialised engineers and due cooperation from the finest academic centres in Poland, ICPT S.A. has manufactured and sold battery systems to customers in the US, Germany, Spain, Turkey, and Italy. While narrating a customer success story, Kras details a specific type of battery system that ICPT S.A. built for Solaris Bus & Coach—a Polish producer of public transport vehicles. The client wanted the battery system to be housed in a specific type of container that can serve three different areas of utility. “We embedded three different types of chemistries in the container—for overnight charging, opportunity charging, and heavy duty/high power log charging. We designed the product with uniform dimensions and interface to allow the client to use the battery systems across all their buses, which have a standardized body. Depending on the tender or customer, we are able to deliver totally different functionality inside the same pack,” says Kras.
We are not selling just hardware, but compute systems—implementing software and algorithms around the battery system to craft the perfect product
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Impact Clean Power Technology S.A.
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Bartłomiej Kras, CEO & President
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An energy storage solution provider that manufactures customer-specific battery systems which are widely within the electric mobility industry. With the assistance of a team of 160 highly-specialised engineers and due cooperation from the finest academic centres in Poland, Impact Clean Power Technology (ICPT S.A.) has manufactured and sold battery systems to customers in the US, Germany, Spain, Turkey, and Italy. A leader in the production of battery systems for public transport and energy storage, ICPT S.A. creates the entire value chain for an EV battery system—everything around the battery and thermal management, and implementation of the software