Brussels, Clermont-Ferrand, April 10, 2025
The battery is a key challenge for today's and tomorrow’s mobility. Understanding its state of health allows us to estimate a vehicle's residual value, optimize its lifespan, and reduce its carbon footprint.
At the heart of the Free University of Brussels, the Electromobility Research Center (MOBI), which includes the Battery Innovation Center (BIC), has been working for decades on the challenges of electric mobility. Through its all-in-one comprehensive offering tailored to business needs, Watèa provides battery electric vehicles, access to charging infrastructure, and digital services, ensuring business continuity.
"Collaborating with MOBI-BIC allows Watèa to benefit from its long-standing and internationally recognized scientific and technical expertise. The ongoing research will help understand how driving and charging behaviors influence battery longevity, us anticipate future battery technologies entering the market, and explore smart charging solutions and their integration into our offering." François BIZET, Lead Data Scientist at Watèa by Michelin.
“This successful research collaboration with Watèa has not only extended our knowledge of battery health estimation considering real-world scenarios but also enriched our portfolio. The collaboration is an excellent example of how we can bridge lab-level understandings and application-level implementation of battery algorithms. The developed knowledge will pave the way to explore further research directions.” Md Sazzad Hosen, Research Professor at MOBI-BIC, VUB.
Thanks to this partnership, Watèa has already implemented regular monitoring of battery health indicators for all its customers’ vehicles. These indicators are based on the analysis of customers’ charging habits. This is an important first step toward deploying solutions to extend vehicle lifespan. Decarbonizing mobility also depends on this!
About Watèa by Michelin
With an all-in-one package tailored to the needs of the company, Watèa provides battery-powered and hydrogen-powered electric vehicles, access to a recharging infrastructure and digital services to ensure business continuity. Thanks to a monthly subscription system, costs are kept under control.
A subsidiary of the Michelin and Crédit Agricole Leasing & Factoring groups, Watèa is in line with the raison d'être of its shareholders and their values of sustainable mobility, innovation, reliability and respect for the customer.
About MOBI-BIC. VUB-MOBI's Battery Innovation Centre is the main Belgian expertise centre for research and development of energy storage systems for traction and stationary applications. It offers state-of-the-art facilities, tools, and solutions for the energy storage systems market.
Press Contact : Watèa : Anne-Charlotte Giquel – anne-charlotte.giquel@watea.green +33 6 85 71 26 25 MOBI : niamh.byl@vub.be ; +32488256146