BMS Choices for Electric Vehicles

BMS Battery Management System for Electric Vehicles running Lithium Batteries

Some requirements:

  1. Able to do 45 cells or more,
  2. Isolate battery pack from overcharge,
  3. Isolate battery pack at low state of charge,
  4. Designed for LiFePo4 batteries,
  5. Give a price
  6. Some track record?

This is a collection of information I have collected and gathered together to decide on a BMS for the LiFePo4 battery pack I have ordered for the Saturn. If someone has any info to add email me at [[http://www.saturn.lynnautorepair.com/contact|CONTACT HERE]] especially track records. I cannot find many examples of these in use, except by the BMS makers themselves.


High Voltage Low Voltage Temp Digital Battery User 
Maker Model Cost Protection Protection Aware Display Balancing Info Examples

Elithion
Lithiumate  $  
1,900.00
X X X X Cruzware.com

Cleanpowerauto
MiniBMS  $     
700.00
X X X X balancing optional

Peter Perkins
Open Source  $     
600.00
X X X

Blue View
Blue View BMS  $  
1,000.00
X X X X displays each cell!

EV Works
BMS TS90 EV2  $  
1,100.00
X X X X
Works with TBS BFGuage
Evalbum.com

Hardy Flex BMS
BMS-48  $  
1,200.00
X X X X X Suspended Sales?

ThunderStruck
BMS-X, TS BMS  $     
825.00
X X

Cycle Analyst
CA-DP  $     
120.00
X Display only

Here is a link to [[http://www.diyelectriccar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14778|DIYElectricCar BMS Wiki]]

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List af *all*Li-Ion BMSs

Here is a list of all commercially available Li-Ion BMS:
http://liionbms.com/php/bms_options.php