The current state and future prospects of battery thermal management systems in the green automobile industry : a review of varied battery types and cooling systems employed in electric vehicles

Abstract

The introduction of electric vehicles (EVs) to the world automobile industry has made a significant impact in every kind of ways due to its great contribution to the environment. As human is in the race of protecting and rehabilitating the plant, the invention of this new green vehicles is receiving lots of attention and positive feedback from consumers. Despite its remarkable advantages, the EVs possesses a potential threat to consumer’s life in some ways and the hazards which came across along the way. Thus, this paper is going to discuss about the EVs in general, then going into details about the causes and why as well as how to fix the problems. In specific, there will be analysis about different types of batteries used and many options of cooling system available as well as the battery thermal management system. Afterwards, the future of lithium battery and battery thermal management system (BTMS) will be reviewed with many trends are predicted to lead the industry in the long run.