By Steve Bush 9th July 2020
Silicon carbide mosfet maker Wolfspeed did a presentation on its 180kW electric vehicle motor drive – designed with NXP and Vepco – at virtual-PCIM this year.
The three phase design is for permanent magnet motors, and is good for 15,000rpm and peaks above 97% efficient.
Functional safety targets are ASIL-C and ASIL-D.
It operates at 350V to 650V and can carry up to 420A (peak) using 1.2kV 13mΩ SiC mosfets – six of them in a module. Claimed power density id 26kW/litre.
NXP provides just about all the other semiconductors:
XP’s F6500 power chip and processor
Vepco Technologies did design work and pre-production prototyping.
There is an information brief here
And apparently the full presentation will download from here, but I can’t get it to open on my working-from-home Raspberry Pi 4. The other Wolfspeed presentations for PCIM 2020, from this page, open fine.
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