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£88m of joint industry and government funding has been announced for 46 vehicle-related CO2 reduction projects in the UK. Awarded through the UK’s Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC), £44.5m is from the government and £43.5m from the automotive industry. “Congratulations to all the companies awarded funding in this latest round of competitions facilitated by the Department for Business and Trade and industry,” ...

Cambridge electric vehicle battery start-up Nyobolt has revealed a purpose-built testing and demonstration car, created with Callum Automotive of Warwick. “Whilst the priority use for this Nyobolt EV is showcasing and testing the battery technology, Callum’s team has engineered it so that low volume production, for road or track use, is possible,” according to Nyobolt. “Nyobolt’s battery assembly plans are ...

Texas Instruments and Delta Electronics are to collaborate on the development of on-board chargers and other electric vehicle power electronics. As part of this, they have set up a joint laboratory in Pingzhen, Taiwan. “Having been in Taiwan for 55 years, coupled with decades of experience in automotive power management, TI has built a strong connection with the local automotive ...

The Bugatti Tourbillon, announced yesterday, is a hybrid, with 800hp spread across three electric motors in addition to its 1,000hp 8.3 litre Cosworth V16 petrol engine. Two of the electric motors are part of the front axle system, and the other one is part of the rear axle assembly. Powered them is a 800V 25kWh oil-cooled battery housed in the ...

Omron has launched a high-capacity PCB-mount relay for switching dc in 15 to 40kW household electricity storage systems, bi-directional EV chargers and uninterruptible power systems. G9KB-E is based on the earlier G9KB family, and is the same size and weight (37 x 50mm footprint and 50mm tall), but can switch higher power, up to maximums of 800Vdc or 100A. Envisaged ...

Samsung has created a 630V 100nF multi-layer ceramic capacitor in 1210 size (3.2 x 2.5mm) specifically for electric vehicle dc-dc converters and on-board chargers. CL32B104KHU6PN has an X7R dielectric (±15% capacitance -55 to +125°C) and a maximum rated voltage of 630V. “A dc-dc converter converts high voltages to 12Vdc in order to operate in-vehicle infotainment systems, for example,” according to ...

Applied EV has picked Cissoid to supply silicon carbide based inverter modules for its autonomous electric vehicles. The module, CXT-ICM3SA, was introduced at APEC earlier this year and combines a three-phase 1.2kV SiC mosfet bridge – rated at 340 to 550A depending on model – a driver board and a control board in a stack. The control board is built ...

Microchip has turned to silicon carbide to create a bi-directional electric vehicle on-board charger design for 400V or 800V batteries. There are two halves: a 7.6kW bi-directional two-phase interleaved totem-pole power factor corrector, and an 11kW dual full bridge transformer-coupled bi-directional dc-dc converter. “These two designs work together,” Microchip told Electronics Weekly. “At PCIM we showed both operating in bi-directional ...

Drive System Design (DSD) and Alvier Mechatronics have teamed up to create a development platform for electric vehicle drives. “The project leverages DSD’s expertise in rapid development engineering and Alvier Mechatronics’ experience in novel manufacturing methods for high-volume applications, material know-how and electromagnetic design,” according to DSD. Called iDS, it “showcases technologies, materials and analysis techniques with real, tested hardware for ...

Intepro Systems is stocking a 50kW regenerative ac-dc electronic load and grid simulator from Cinergia. Called ‘GE&EL+ vAC/DC SiC’, Intepro describes it as: “The whole Cinergia catalogue in a single unit. [It] is both an ac and dc grid emulator, and can also works as a load [and] is ideal for testing solar panels, wind turbines, hardware-in-the-loop power, smart grids, ...