Glickenhaus 007 LMH - designed and built by Podium Advanced Technologies - in first place for the first three hours of the race at the 6 Hours of Monza plus a pole position

10 July 2022

Monza, 10 July 2022 – After the 3rd and 4th places overall at legendary Le Mans 24 Hours, Glickenhaus 007 LMH No. 708 – designed and built by Podium Advanced Technologies – has been at the front of the field after almost three hours of the 6 Hours of Monza.
 
Pilots Romain Dumas and then Luis Felipe Derani ensure the 007 LMH has a strong 45-second lead over the No.36 Alpine, losing the lead after safety car period when the team takes penalty for full course yellow speed infringement. Then Olivier Pla takes over cockpit but then slows with a turbo failure, pits and retires from the race.

Furthermore, the 007 LMH on race signed the best lap overall with a total time of 1:36.589 in the fourth lap.

The day before, Romain Dumas took Glickenhaus’ second pole position of the season after a sensational lap closed at 1:35.416, crushing the opposition by almost a second.

After Le Mans and Monza the performances of the 007 LMH and the ability of the pilots are under everyone’s eyes.

Luca Ciancetti, Glickenhaus Racing Team Principle and Podium Advanced Technologies Head of Road cars and Motorsport Business Line: “We were thrilled to see our car in first place for such a long time, with a safe distance from the others behind us. It never happened before. When unexpectedly the turbo failed, well, that’s racing, there is nothing you can do. But there will be soon new challenges for us. As always, we are deeply grateful for the opportunity to work with Jim Glickenhaus: he is always great to everyone in the team, having a strong team spirit.”

Assembly process

Sorting, Testing and Stacking Cylindrical
- Fully automated station
- 100% cells state of health testing (including open circuit voltage, resistance/AC impedance, temperature
- Stations able to handle module up to 1200 mm length
- Different cooling strategies can be handled within this station
- Similar capacity cells can be sorted and included in a module
- Fast and tack-free led lamp curing
- Accurate pressing operation
Sorting, Testing and Stacking Cylindrical
Sorting, Testing and Stacking Prismatic and Pouch
- Fully automated station
- 100% cells state of health testing (including open circuit voltage, resistance/AC impedance, temperature
- Stations can handle different cell dimensions and different thermal extraction strategies
- Accurate pressing operation
Sorting, Testing and Stacking Prismatic and Pouch
Bus Bar Laser Welding
- Cutting edge laser beam technology that guarantees robust joints for several type of busbar connections
- Possibility to weld challenging reflective materials such as CU, Al and dissimiral combination of materials
- Internal development of welding parameters
- Extensive quality control such as weld penetration in process monitoring and resistivity checks
- Stations can handle module up to 1200 mm length and 600 mm width
Bus Bar Laser Welding
Ultrasonic wire bonding
- Fully automatic station
- Wire bonding with the highest axis accuracy
- Continuous real time monitoring of wire condition and process
- Integrated quality control
Ultrasonic wire bonding
Pack assembly stations
- Stations equipped with manual assistors and process dedicated tools to allow assembly teams to work in perfect ergonomic and safe conditions
- Stations equipped with torque monitored tools
- Control tracking system to verify process completion and quality monitoring
- Junction box assembly and quality control
- Controlled sealing application completed after functional test
Pack assembly stations
EOL Testing
- Battery module and pack functional tests
- BMS firmware and software flashing
- Pack cooling system integrity test
EOL Testing

Main features

  • Safety: BMS Design compliant for ISO 26262
  • Scalable slave-master architecture, handles systems
    up to 1.000 V
  • Cell dissipative balancing

Functionalities

  • Real time monitoring cells & components voltage
    and temperatures
  • Advanced algorithms for SOC/SOH estimation
  • Advanced SOP estimation with realtime cell
    thermoelectrical models
  • Electromechanical components feedback monitoring
    and degradation estimation (fuses, contactors)
  • Control and monitoring of the thermal management system
  • Sensing of current, water leak, internal humidity, etc
  • Ground fault monitoring of grounded or ungrounded systems

Services related to BMS

  • Testing and modelling of battery cells
    and systems
  • Experimental characterization of cells
    for accurate state estimation algorithms
    (e.g., SOC, SOE, SOH, SOP)
  • BMS hardware and software development
    for specific applications
  • Prototyping of high-performance
    battery systems
  • Consulting in the field of battery systems

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