Background

The Battery Workforce Challenge collegiate competition was a three-year engineering competition that challenged North American universities and their community college partners to design, build, test and integrate an advanced EV battery pack into a Stellantis vehicle.
 
Each Battery Workforce Challenge team received a 2024 Ram ProMaster EV from Stellantis. The 2024 Ram ProMaster EV is designed specifically for electrification, featuring a unibody design that efficiently incorporates the production battery pack. Perfect as a work van to perform commercial activities, this application served as an exciting opportunity for students to design batteries for bigger vehicles.

Innovations & Highlights

Throughout the competition, more than 1,000 students received more than 500 hours of technical training and support from industry subject matter experts. They applied that knowledge to design and build battery modules, harnesses, and full battery packs to standards suitable for vehicle integration.

In the final year, four teams designed, built, and tested full battery packs across varying capacities. Four teams completed Battery Management System development with comprehensive X-in-the-Loop validation, testing hundreds of functional requirements and diagnostic cases across multiple platforms. Two teams advanced through the Hardware and Software Gates to reach the Integration Gates, marking a significant milestone in the battery development process.

2023

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2024

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2025

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2026

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Universities Involved

Colleges Involved

Winners & Awards

Take a look back on the successes of teams throughout the Battery Workforce Challenge