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Aiming at vehicle traction, Infineon has put a pair of 3,300V 1,000A 1.9 mΩ silicon carbide trench mosfets into its 100 x 140 x 40mm ‘XHP 2’ module housing, calling the module FF2000UXTR33T2M1. This package is rated for 6kV testing, and achieves 2.6kV partial discharge extinction. Creepage is 40mm terminal to baseplate and 34mm between terminals. Clearance is 31 and ...

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 ...

Specialist electric car maker The Little Car Company is celebrating three years since it delivered its first vehicle. The company creates slightly scaled down versions of classic vehicles, powered by electric motors rated at up to 28kW. So far is has delivered 400 vehicles to over 50 countries, spread between its Bugatti Baby II, Aston Martin DB5 Junior and Ferrari ...

LEM has announced three-phase current sensors that fit silicon carbide power modules typically used in 800V vehicle traction inverters. “Developers of automotive traction inverters are increasingly using three-phase power modules such as Hybridpack Drive from Infineon, Acepak Drive from ST Microelectronics, SSDC from ON Semi, and others such as Starpower and CRRC,” according to LEM. “The current sensor offers current ...

San Jose based Pre-Switch is reporting 98.5% efficiency at 5% load from its 800Vin ‘CleanWave2’ prototype inverter. Peak efficiency is 99.57%. It is a 100kHz forced-resonant, soft-switching inverter, controlled by an AI algorithm (more on the technology here). “Over a year ago we announced peak efficiency of over 99%. Since that time, we have been improving our AI algorithm to ...

Aiming at electric vehicle traction inverters, LEM has managed to shrink a 1.5kA current sensor into 29 x 21 x 12mm and 27g. “HSTDR current sensor is significantly more compact than a traditional C-core sensor, making it much easier to be integrated into space-limited inverter boxes,” said LEM. The technology is open-loop Hall effect and the core, integrated bus bar ...

In the latest deal by a car maker in the scramble for silicon carbide, Volkswagen has signed a strategic agreement with onsemi to provide modules and semiconductors for the traction inverters for VW’s next-generation electric vehicle platform. Teams from the two companies, revealed onsemi, have been collaborating for more than a year to optimise power modules, and pre-production samples are ...

NXP is aiming at electric vehicles traction inverters for up to two motors with its S32K39 microcontrollers. “The MCUs support IGBT as well as SiC and GaN,” according to the company. “It has enough compute power to support six-phase or two three-phase motors controlled by dual 200 kHz control loops, while hosting AI, machine learning or other monitoring applications. It ...

The University of Nottingham has creates a business unit for the industrialisation of electrical motors and drive systems, claiming that it is the first UK institution to create an independent business unit for the industrialisation of electrical motors and drive systems. Nottingham Drive Specialist Services (NDSS) will provide “bespoke development, manufacturing and testing of electrical motors and drives to support ...

Infineon has introduced a 50kW automotive-qualified IGBT half bridge for electric and hybrid vehicles. Called FF300R08W2P2_B11A, and rated to 230Arms, it includes a pair of 750V IGBTs from the company’s EDT2 generation, optimised for 10kHz switching. “The chipset has benchmark current density combined with short circuit ruggedness for reliable inverter operation under harsh environmental conditions,” said Infineon. “The EDT2 IGBTs also ...