Wireless Communication in Battery Management Systems: Cord-cutting for gen-EV

Electric vehicles (EV) reached their peak market share between 1900 and 1910. At that time, they constituted 38% of all vehicles sold with the gasoline car at only 22% and the steam car at an impressive 40% [1] . Now a global trend toward a cleaner and more sustainable future is renewing interest in EVs due to benefits that were appreciated 120 years ago. Problems that have held back EV adoption, such as range anxiety, expense, battery charging time, battery lifetime, and, more recently, battery fires, are becoming mitigated through technological advances, resulting in EVs starting to regain ground [2] . Lithium-ion batteries are one such advance. With their comparably high-energy density and long cycle life, they have become widely used as traction batteries (energy to move the vehicle).