In September 1986 a contract was signed between Chloride Silent Power Limited (CSPL) and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) entitled ''Sodium Sulfur Electric Vehicle Battery Engineering Program''. The aim of the cost shared program was to advance the state of the art of sodium sulfur batteries for electric vehicle propulsion. Initially, the work statement was non-specific in regard to the vehicle to be used as the design and test platform. Under a separate contract with the DOE, Ford Motor Company was designing an advanced electric vehicle drive system. This program, called the ETX II, used a modified Aerostar van for its platform. In 1987, the ETX II vehicle was adopted for the purposes of this contract. This report details the development and testing of a series of battery designs and concepts which led to the testing, in the US, of three substantial battery deliverables.


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    Title :

    Sodium sulfur electric vehicle battery engineering program final report, September 2, 1986--June 15, 1993


    Publication date :

    1993


    Size :

    123 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English