Automotive Electronics

For rail use, Smiths Interconnect has created Easy REP, a lower cycle-life variant of its REP connector series. “Today a number of rail and industrial applications do not require high-cycle life as a technical requirement, but still require compliance with the railway standard of 500 cycles and other important qualified features,” according to the company. “These are the kind of ...

NSPE-HC from NIC Components is a series of AEC-Q200 automotive-grade surface mount aluminium electrolytic capacitors. In five case sizes from 6.3 x 6.3mm diameter to 12.8 x 10mm diameter, the series covers 56 to 560μF in ratings of 25 and 35Vdc, with operation over -55 to +105°C and a load life rating of 5000 hours at +105°C. “The performance of ...

TDK has introduced 250W 1/16th brick (~36 x 26 x 13mm) non-isolated dc-dc down converters for use in harsh environment. Efficiency is up to 98%, reducing heat dissipation and allowing operation with the case between -40°C to +110°C. Called RGA, they are capable of operating from 9 to 40V, or 9 to 53V. For the 40V input version, the output ...

Magnachip has introduced its third- generation 200V Medium Voltage (MV) MOSFETs for Light Electric Vehicles (LEV) motor controllers and industrial power supplies. To maximize energy efficiency in power devices, Magnachip’s new 200V MOSFETs incorporate third-generation trench MOSFET technology. The capacitance was reduced by 50% compared to the previous generation 100V MV MOSFET and the enhanced design of the core cell ...

IONETIC, the UK EV battery pack start-up specialist, has launched an EV battery pack design platform, which can cut the development cost and time for automotive manufacturers bringing a new electric vehicle to market. IONETIC claims to offer a blend of cost and customisation to help accelerate battery pack development. It claims its software-based platform can boost energy density by ...

STMicroelectronics is aiming at electric vehicle drive-trains and domain-oriented systems with a group of microcontrollers announced today “The real-time ‘Stellar P6’ automotive microcontrollers integrate motion-control and energy-management domains with actuation capabilities” for software-defined drive-traction architectures,” said ST automotive v-p Luca Rodeschini. “As the automotive industry begins work on vehicle platforms for model-year 2024, ST is ready with the microcontrollers to ...

Cosworth and Ariel Motor Company, together with other key partners, have developed an ultra high-performance electric road car known as HIPERCAR (High Performance Carbon Reduction). Following the completion of the APC (Advanced Propulsion Centre) government-funded programme HIPERCAR 2, the companies will be debuting the prototype vehicle at the Cenex-LCV2022 event in UTAC Millbrook from 7th – 8th of September. Using ...

Renesas is aiming its next generation of IGBTs at electric vehicle inverters, and is making them on 300mm wafers. Behind them it its new ‘AE5’ process. “The silicon based process achieves a 10% reduction in power losses compared to the current-generation AE4 products,” said Renesas, “In addition, the new products are approximately 10% smaller while optimally balancing low power loss ...

Toshiba is claiming better improved on-resistance and gate charge for its third generation of industrial 650V enhancement-mode silicon carbide mosfets. The “third generation SiC process optimises the cell structures used in second-generation devices,” according to the company. “As a result, the product of Rds(on) and Qg, that represents both static and dynamic losses, has improved by about 80%”. In common ...

UK EV battery startup Britishvolt had announced the resignation of co-founder and CEO Orral Nadjari. A previous co-founder, Britishvolt chairman  Lars Carlstrom, resigned in 2020 after it was found he had a tax fraud conviction in Sweden. Deputy CEO Graham Hoare will become acting CEO. Britishvolt has just been granted £100 million by the governments Automotive Transformation Fund. The company ...