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Article : Plug&Play ESS solutions

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Flexible, Modular and scalable high-performance storage solutions

PowerRack® system offers the most powerful energy storage solution in terms of modularity, lifespan, security and environmental footprint.

It is equipped with an embedded intelligence system developed by PowerTech Systems called BMSMatrix®.
It easily and securely manages the deployment, control and monitoring of large or complex energy storage systems. This technology offers incredible modularity and flexibility. It can thus be easily deployed with voltage ranges from 48VDC to more than 1000VDC, with a capacity ranging from a few KWh to several MWh.

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PowerRack® : Plug&Play ESS for large spectrum of applications

A flexible and scalable storage solution

PowerRack® has a programmable communication system, compatible with the leading converters on the market (SMA, Studer, Schneider, etc.).
The interface can be adapted to communicate with specific applications. The standard embedded protocols are: CAN, CAN Open, RS232, RS485, ModBus.

Target applications :

  • Smart grids, Off-Grid and weak-Grid
  • Heavy duty traction (Electric vessels, railway, etc.)
  • Telecom
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Article: Lithium batteries for Electro-mobility

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Electromobility

The French company PowerTech Systems offers energy storage solutions for electro-mobility and last mile.

A French startup specialized in the market of electrical energy storage solutions using Lithium-Iron-Phosphate technology (LiFePO4 or LFP), PowerTech Systems designs and markets battery solutions that combine modularity, power, reliability, safety and above all long service life….

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The E-mobility market today

Electro-mobility becomes more democratic

It is the ability or property for people or objects to move in a space, by a means of transport using partially or totally electrical energy.

Today, electromobility meets a major challenge in the fight against global warming. That of the replacement of polluting thermal engines by electric models more respectful of the environment.

According to figures released by the IEA (International Energy Agency), the number of electric cars in circulation around the world has sharply increased in 2016. With more than 750,000 units sold (40% more than the previous year), the market of green vehicles has exceeded the symbolic bar of 2 millions of units.


Some key figures:

  • China has become the main market for electrically powered cars. With more than 336,000 new registrations, it concentrates more than 40% of global sales in 2016. Moreover, there are 200 million electric two-wheelers and more than 300,000 electric busses.
  • In second place is Europe with more than 215,000 green cars in 2016.
  • In Norway, electric cars account for 1/3 of new car sales.
  • Next come the United Kingdom, France (where electromobility represents only 1.5% of the market share), Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands.
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Article : PowerTech solutions for Self-consumption

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Since July 2016, French national law supervises renewable energy Self-consumption for end users.

Self consumption defines a producer (self-producer) that partially or completely consumes energy electric energy produced by his own installation.

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Self-consumption with batteries

It represents a real advantage as it maximises energy consumption locally produced.
Through this system, it is easier to reduce energy bill and get a return on investment.
Adding a battery considerably improves its efficiency. This system storages the energy produced during the day (…). See the article (only in French)

PowerTech Systems offers an advanced energy storage system with lithium ion technology. It entirely prevents from explosion or fire risks (…). See the article (only in French)

The continuous supply of electrical energy is a key issue to be addressed

The solar panels do not work at night and badly with bad weather. Also, wind turbines depend on wind conditions. Generators depend on the supply of gasoline.

The energy generated at a certain time of the day must be stored to optimise domestic use, without disrupting supply and with permanent control of the remaining energy reserve.
The batteries required for energy storage must be durable, reliable, environmentally friendly, and must be able to supply energy for long periods of time without being powered by the grid.

The Self-consumption market in France

In 2017,

  • about 15 000 households self-consume their own-produced electricity,
  • and 5,000 other households sell their surplus.
  • According to the Commission de régulation de l’énergie (CRE), France has 14,000 self-consumers in 201
PowerRack® Lithium Ion batteries system is now approved by Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore
PowerTech Systems present on the electromobility market
Energy storage: PowerTech Systems Plug&Play solutions

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Electric streamliner powered by a Lithium Ion battery from PowerTech Systems!

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21 French engineers students in aeronautics of the Estaca group have a dream ! They wanted to participate in the 2017 Bonneville Speed week with an atypical vehicle… An electric streamliner! And they did it!

November, 2017

Once upon a time, an electric streamliner…

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Not beating the record of 345km/h, they managed to reach nearly 250km/h with their electric racing car on the salt lake of Bonneville, Utah, USA.

The electric streamliner was equipped with two engines of E-formula 1, high technologies, a high power lithium Iron Phosphate battery. This latter is designed and built by
PowerTechSystems. Well prepared, they were close to break the speed record for an electric car!

An ambitious project of 7m length which provoked deep reactions, increasing renown and curiosity about the future technologies.

Watch this space with new projects ideas as the construction of a racing car… And the participation in a complete season of ” free racing ” (low-cost motor racing).

The project followed by PowerTechSystems :

Find more about :
“Ecole Supérieure des Techniques Aéronautiques et de Construction automobile, Laval” (only in French)
The “Estaca On the Salt” project on Facebook
The PowertechSystems know-how

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PowerTech Systems attends to FIRA (International Forum of Agricultural Robotics)

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The 2nd edition of the International Forum of Agricultural Robotics organized by NAIO will take place on November 29th and 30th, 2017, in Toulouse.

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This event meets about twenty exhibitors, specialists of the automation and robotics in agriculture. Among them, PowerTechSystems represented by Cyril Bergeaud, CEO, and Olivier Lechable, Sales Director.

2 days of exchanges and discoveries in the presence of experts. For example, it will be possible to meet:

  • Head of Robotics and Automation of the Agri-Epi Center at Harper Adams University as well as the Director of the National Center for Precision Farming, (UK),
  • President and Managing Director, Naïo Technologies, Aymeric Barthes et Gaëtan Severac (France)
  • Professor in agricultural robotics and head of the Robotics and Control Group at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Pal Joan From (Norway)
  • Member of the Executive Committee of CAPAGRO, Isabelle Monpert (France)
  • Venture Analyst and Associate in Anterra Capital, Dan HARBURG (US)
  • Director of Research of the IRSTEA National Institute of Scientific and Technological Research for the Environment and Agriculture, Roland Lenain (France)

In 2025, the agriculture could represent the 2nd robotics market. To understand and know it more, some essential themes will be deal with :

  • « Why robots come to the farm? », animated by Isabel Báez Betancort, journalist, Spanish Medias Agricoles (Espagne)
  • « The drudgery of farm work », animated by Maët Le Lan, Coordinator Experimental Station, Chamber of Agriculture (Brittany) (France)
  • « The new shift in agriculture », animated by Tobias Meyer, journalist, Traction Magazine (Germany)

To know more on :

FIRA exhibition
Lithium-ion applications
Lithium-ion PowerTechSystems Storage Systems