NI Releases Latest Battery Test System to Enhance Safety and Performance of Electric Vehicles

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NI (NASDAQ: NATI) has launched its latest Battery Test System (BTS) to enhance electric vehicle (EV) battery testing. This system aims to streamline testing workflows for Tier 1 suppliers and automakers by offering customization and automation, ultimately accelerating time to market. The BTS integrates power electronics, environmental chambers, and data analytics tools, facilitating coordination between design and testing teams. With its acquisitions, NI strengthens its global capabilities, ensuring scalability and efficiency in meeting current and future EV market demands.

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• Introduction of the Battery Test System (BTS) enhances EV testing capabilities.
• Allows customization and automation, improving testing efficiency.
• Strengthened global capabilities through recent acquisitions.
• Facilitates coordination between design and test teams, improving workflow.
• Ensures scalability of battery testing to meet market demands.

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Software-connected system enables agile workflows to adapt to complexities of EV battery testing

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- NI (NASDAQ: NATI) today announced the release of its latest Battery Test System (BTS) for electric vehicle (EV) testing. The system is designed to help Tier 1 suppliers and automakers adapt to the complexity and scale of EV battery testing through enhanced customization, automation and connection of data across the entire battery test workflow to ensure performance and accelerate time to market.

Batteries are at the core of the shift to electrification and have a direct impact on the sustainability, safety, performance and, consequently, consumer buy-in of EVs. However, testing of EV batteries places immense strain on engineering resources as design and test groups must continuously upgrade and adapt to new test requirements.

NI’s BTS enables scalability of testing by providing an out-of-the-box experience for battery test workflows, along with customization capability to fit a variety of test roles and needs. This software-connected system is uniquely positioned to integrate components for battery test such as power electronics, environmental chambers, measurements and test channels at scale. It facilitates coordination of activities between design and test teams to request, configure, run, monitor and report on test results that inform critical design changes.

“Automakers are investing heavily to deliver on EV timelines, which has placed increased importance on test to ensure this technology meets both time commitments and consumer expectations for safety,” said Jon Denhof, Senior Director of Offering Management, Electrification. “NI’s BTS combines decades of test and measurement experience with our powerful software to enable automakers to test their batteries at scale, within budget and at pace with market demands.”

With its recent acquisition of NH Research Inc. (NHR), Heinzinger Automotive GmbH and Kratzer Automation, NI’s global capabilities for EV battery test provide automakers with a cross-functional, scalable network of products, services and solutions to meet current and future EV market demands. Additionally, NI’s SystemLink™ software, BTS software and data analytics tools work together to ensure traceability of test results, repeatability of the tests themselves and management of the entire test-cell and test lab operation, ultimately bringing modern software engineering tools and practices into battery testing.

To learn more about NI’s BTS and other battery and EV solutions, visit ni.com/evtest.

About NI

At NI, we bring together the people, ideas and technology so forward thinkers and creative problem solvers can take on humanity’s biggest challenges. From design and validation to manufacturing production, we provide software-connected systems leveraging data through all aspects of the development life cycle, enabling engineers and enterprises to Engineer Ambitiously™ every day.

National Instruments, NI, ni.com, Engineer Ambitiously and SystemLink are trademarks of National Instruments Corporation. Other product and company names listed are trademarks or trade names of their respective companies.

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Heather Gioco

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Source: NI

FAQ

What is NI's new Battery Test System (BTS) for EV testing?

NI's Battery Test System (BTS) is designed to enhance the efficiency and scalability of electric vehicle (EV) battery testing by offering customization and automation for various test roles.

How does the BTS improve EV battery testing?

The BTS improves EV battery testing through enhanced customization, automation, and integration of testing components, facilitating better coordination between design and test teams.

What recent acquisitions has NI made to enhance its EV capabilities?

NI has recently acquired NH Research Inc., Heinzinger Automotive GmbH, and Kratzer Automation to strengthen its global capabilities for EV battery testing.

How does NI's BTS help automakers?

The BTS enables automakers to test their batteries at scale, within budget, and in alignment with consumer safety expectations, thus meeting market demands.

Where can I learn more about NI's BTS and EV solutions?

You can learn more about NI's Battery Test System and other EV solutions by visiting ni.com/evtest.