PIONIX has created BaseCamp, built on the open-source EVerest framework, a robust and future-ready operating system that simplifies charger development while ensuring compatibility with the latest industry standards. Read more…
Category: E-Mobility Engineering
Ystral Batt-TDS offers faster electrode slurry mixing
Surging EV adoption has placed unprecedented demand on lithium-ion battery production, so advances in manufacturing processes such as electrode slurry production are critical. Read more…
Isolation technologies
Nick Flaherty investigates techniques
that enable digital controllers to interface safely with high-voltage systems.
As automotive designs move to electrification, high-power electronics have become critical components in new electronic drivetrain and battery systems. Communication and control from low-voltage digital devices requires electrical isolation of the high-voltage elements from the low-voltage side, covered by the extra-low voltage (SELV) regulations. Read more…
Dynisma DMG family
Seamless simulation Peter Donaldson checks out simulators designed to give drivers the most realistic response and feel Dynisma’s DMG family of simulators is designed to reduce the time and expense involved in building and testing vehicles by moving as much prototype development as possible into the virtual world. We caught up with the company’s commercial director, […] Read more…
The Battery Show USA show report
A wealth of advanced battery tech for EVs was on show in Detroit, as Peter Donaldson reports.
Staged for the first time at Huntington Place, Detroit, The Battery Show and Electric & Hybrid Vehicle Technology Expo, North America showcased a myriad advanced battery technologies. Organiser Informa Markets reports that more than 21,000 professionals from around the world attended and 1250 organisations exhibited, making the 2024 event the largest in its history, which dates back to 2010. Read more…
Battery cell manufacturing
There are three major phases of activity for manufacturing battery cells, as Nick Flaherty reports
Moving from small coin cells that prove the performance of a battery chemistry in the laboratory to production is a big step. There are many different ways to construct a cell, and many techniques for both building and characterising the resulting battery. Read more…
Evice Rolls-Royce Corniche
Evice is using modern technologies and EV powertrains to improve some of the best cars ever built, starting with a beautiful Rolls-Royce Corniche, reports Will Gray.
When it comes to pure, opulent luxury, there are few more iconic cars than those produced by Rolls-Royce in the 1970s and 80s. Read more…
In conversation: John Stamford
The advanced powertrain chief engineer of Jaguar Land Rover got into EVs before EVs were even a thing. He tells Will Gray how far things have come
If you want to understand the evolution of electric vehicles (EVs), there are few better to speak to than Jaguar Land Rover’s advanced powertrain chief engineer, John Stamford. Read more…
Multi-chemistry batteries
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A little over a year ago, a BMW iX electric SUV fitted experimentally with a dual-chemistry Gemini battery pack from Our Next Energy (ONE) drove 978 km (608 miles) on a single charge – an impressive achievement for such a large, heavy car, writes Peter Donaldson. Read more…
Hercules to be the biggest electrified aircraft
Wright Electric is developing the powertrain for a hybrid version of the C-130 transport aircraft, the Hercules, writes Nick Flaherty.
It would use two conventional turbines and two electric propulsors, with the batteries held in the cargo area, making it the largest aircraft to be electrified.
The project would use the second-generation, MW-class motor, the WM2500, built with support from the US ARPA-E programme and NASA space agency, which is nearly complete. Read more…
Littelfuse launches RCMP20 Residual Current Monitor
Littelfuse has unveiled the RCMP20 Residual Current Monitor Series for Mode 2 and Mode 3 EV charging stations.
The RCMP20 Series offers the largest current transformer aperture available, supporting higher AC charging currents, which is critical for modern EV chargers that demand high-performance capabilities. It also offers reliable ground-fault detection, improving charger performance and safety. Read more…
Stark Future unveils world’s most powerful Enduro motorcycle
Stark Future has launched a road-legal motorcycle, the VARG EX, with the aim of revolutionising the Enduro world.
The drivetrain delivers 80 hbp, making it the most powerful Enduro bike on the market, Stark said. Riders can customise its performance with options for power delivery, engine braking and regenerative curves, all adjustable via the five-mode handlebar control switch. Read more…
Making powertrains faster with the aid of AI
Monumo has used two forms of artificial intelligence (AI)
to speed the development of powertrain systems for e-mobility, writes Nick Flaherty.
Time pressures often limit collaboration between sub-system teams in the early stages of design, which means genuine system-level optimisation is limited, said Simon Shepherd, head of hardware development at Monumo. Read more…
ML enables early detection in EOL tests
Machine learning (ML) with ultrasonic sensors is enabling early error detection during end-of-line (EOL) testing, writes Nick Flaherty.
AITAD in Germany has developed an embedded, AI ultrasonic sensor system that can detect significantly more faults in an e-mobility platform at an early stage of the production cycle. Read more…
Yokogawa releases WT1800R high-performance power analyser
Yokogawa Test & Measurement Corporation has released its WT1800R high-performance power analyser to boost the efficiency of complex measurements for new energy applications.
The WT1800R is the only instrument in its class that guarantees a power accuracy of 0.05% of reading plus 0.05% of range, says Yokogawa, and it is capable of harmonics analysis up to the 500th order of a 50/60 Hz fundamental frequency. Read more…
innolectric presents reliable charging to international standards
With its new DC Charging Controller, Innolectric enables fast charging according to CCS1, CCS2 and NACS, and it is now available in higher volumes.
The Innolectric D3C is designed for vehicles operating in challenging environments and requiring high performance. Read more…
Halving the time it takes to roll out battery packs
Ionetic has developed a system of software, hardware and manufacturing technologies to simplify the development of battery packs, writes Nick Flaherty.
OEMs needing 100 to 10,000 battery packs a year are faced with a difficult choice: expensive, time-consuming, highly bespoke battery packs or low-performance, off-the-shelf systems. Read more…
E-bikes gain BMS based on 100 V Gan devices
Innoscience Technology has launched a battery management system (BMS) based on 100 V gallium nitride (GaN) devices for electric three-wheelers and e-bikes, writes Nick Flaherty.
The VGaN devices are connected by a common drain for bidirectional switching of battery charging and discharging, reducing on-resistance to 3.2 mΩ. Read more…
Ilika tests 10 Ah cells to hit Goliath D6 milestone
Ilika has reached its D6 milestone by testing 10 Ah cells in its Goliath solid-state batteries for electric vehicles.
The modelling of a Goliath-based battery pack for EVs is under way by UK company Balance Batteries. Early results show the weight of the battery pack can be reduced by up to 100 kg on the basis of Goliath’s benefits, compared to a current SUV lithium-ion model of the same energy. Read more…
Donut Lab claims new platform builds faster, cheaper, better EVs
Donut Lab has taken a new approach to building electric vehicles with a development platform that offers a library of inter-compatible components that can be used to produce supercars, buses, UVs or SUVs in record time, it says. Read more…
