Hyundai Motor Company / Kia Motors is making a lot of efforts from hardware to software to improve the basics of electric vehicles that consumers value, such as safety, driving distance, and charging time.
Among them, the case that best demonstrates Hyundai Motor Company / Kia Motors' R&D capabilities is the BMS technology that has been advanced through more than 15 years of in-house development know-how.
BMS is an abbreviation for 'Battery Management System' and is the 'brain' that manages and protects the battery as a whole, while also providing the control information necessary for the car to use the battery.
The core functions of BMS are battery system monitoring (charging status, life prediction, fault diagnosis), battery cell management (cell balancing), and battery control (overcharge, overdischarge, overcurrent control).
If signs of battery abnormality are detected, BMS performs necessary safety control and immediately notifies the customer according to the level of risk. Abnormality data diagnosed by BMS is immediately transmitted to the remote support center, and then a text message is automatically sent to the customer to guide the inspection and emergency dispatch.
Hyundai / Kia officials said that they will not be satisfied with the current level of technology and will continue to devote themselves to the development of new safety technologies so that customers around the world can drive our electric vehicles with peace of mind.