Current efforts try to address those challenges by focusing on two main roadmaps: 1) Materials, that is, optimizing current or inventing new chemistries [2, 3], and 2) Battery Management and mathematical modeling [4, 5], that is, optimizing the usage of current chemistries through various strategies that would adapt charge/discharge cycling properties.
In addition, there are prior or current works that try to take advantage of different available chemistries, which although promising, lack a clear roadmap for fully utilizing available technologies.
Hereby, we introduce a clear roadmap/method for 1) determining the areas of benefit of, and 2) designing of a “multi-chemistry battery pack” that would perform better than any “single-chemistry packs”. In simple terms, we show how to determine when a multi-chemistry pack can beat its constituent single-chemistries, and how to design/utilize different chemistries in hybrid pack whenever the hybrid combination is more beneficial.
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