An apparatus for use in an electric drive system and method for operating such a

Device (1) for use in an electric drive system (2), particularly in a hybridized drive system of a motor vehicle, comprising at least a first (5a) and a second (5b) arranged in a parallel circuit of the battery system (5a, 5b, 5c, ... ), the load outputs (9) (to a common load output 11) are brought together, each battery system (5a, 5b, 5c, ...) has an energy store (6) and coupled thereto precharge circuit (14), by means of an output (14a) of the precharge circuit (14) is formed in each of the load output (9) of the battery system (5a, 5b, 5c, ...), wherein the load output (9) of each battery system (5a, 5b, 5c, ...) by means of the precharge circuit (14) respectively to the common load output (11) to be switched on and off, wherein the common load output (11) is coupled energy directly to an inverter input (12) of an inverter (3) of the device (1), in particular by means of a Zwische nkreiskondensators (13). also a method for operating the device (1) is proposed.