Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
http://www.delawarepowersystems.com
DPS provides advanced battery solutions for clean transportation. We develop, test, produce and market advanced lithium "power battery packs" for electric and hybrid vehicles of all kinds (e.g., electric scooters, motorcycles, cars, trucks, buses, boats, etc.). Our technology offers customers four major benefits: 1) Lower development costs and shortened lead times - by 80%, 2) Extended battery life and enhanced safety, 3) Facilitation of the evolution of battery exchange, replacement and repair services, and 4) Enablement of common charging stations for all classes of electric vehicles.
DPS develops its core technology in Canada and works directly with vehicle OEMs to develop and integrate customized battery systems into vehicle powertrains. This consultative approach results in the adoption of DPS's proprietary "Integrated Battery Platform (TM)" including our standardized "Universal Battery Modules (TM)". Ultimately, DPS makes money by manufacturing and selling Universal Battery Modules (UBMs) and/or customized packs utilizing UBMs to vehicle OEMs. To expand our reach, we partner with select cell manufacturers who are more chemistry-focused and lack the necessary vehicle integration knowledge to address the clean transportation markets. We are currently manufacturing prototype UBMs with a partner in China and will begin commercial production later in Q3 2008.
Our competitors develop customized battery packs by combining hundreds if not thousands of battery cells into a large pack. Each pack is uniquely designed to meet the specific requirements of a given vehicle and it's not uncommon for such a design to take 2 to 3 years to develop at a cost of $2 to $3 million. Once developed, these packs will only work on the specific vehicle they were designed for and an OEM must "re-invent the wheel" to develop a battery pack for another vehicle model or type.
The DPS solution cuts this development time and cost by 80% by utilizing our tested and proven battery modules to develop a customized pack. Instead of starting from scratch with battery cells, we simply link together the right number of UBMs to meet the required vehicle power output. Our intelligent modules can scale up for larger vehicle applications (e.g., buses and trucks) or scale down for smaller vehicles (e.g., scooters and ATVs). The end result is still a customized battery pack, but one that took a fifth of the time at a fifth of the cost to develop.
Larger scale advanced chemistry batteries such as lithium require sophisticated cell balancing and thermal management systems in order to make them safe to use and to deliver optimal performance and longer life. In addition, utilizing such batteries on vehicles requires substantial vehicle integration knowledge. DPS founder, Dr. Walter Wu has years of hybrid powertrain system design experience in which he developed and integrated battery packs for his powertrain designs. With this knowlege, Dr. Wu and a group of software, electrical and mechanical engineers have spent the past 3+ years developing the adaptive algorithms and thermal management systems to deliver the world's first intelligent, modular, scalable advance battery and integration platform. DPS has patents pending on the architecture design of our Univeral Battery Module, and we maintain the software as a proprietary trade secret. In addition, our IP is protected using methods Dr. Wu learned while working for Delphi in Asia. We believe that we have at least a 3 year lead on the competition with regard to our IP and intelligent module approach.
