Prototype of electric vehicle drive with twin water-cooled wheel direct drive motors

Author

Caricchi, Federico ; Crescimbini, Fabio ; Napoli, AugustoDi ; Marcheggiani, Mauro

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Rome Univ., Italy

Volume

2

fYear

1996

fDate

23-27 Jun 1996

Firstpage

1926

Abstract

The availability of new high-energy permanent magnets at a reasonable cost has opened up the possibility of developing very compact brushless permanent magnet motors with substantially improved overload capability for wheel direct drive applications. Concerning the development of an electric propulsion system for a newly-conceived dual-power city car, this paper discusses the design, construction and laboratory testing of a twin wheel direct drive prototype based on a novel topology of water-cooled axial-flux permanent magnet motor

Keywords

brushless machines; cooling; electric propulsion; electric vehicles; permanent magnet motors; traction motor drives; applications; axial-flux PM motor; brushless permanent magnet motors; construction; design; development; dual-power city car; electric vehicle drive; laboratory testing; overload capability; water cooling; wheel direct drive motors; Cities and towns; Costs; Drives; Electric vehicles; Laboratories; Permanent magnet motors; Propulsion; Prototypes; System testing; Wheels;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics Specialists Conference, 1996. PESC '96 Record., 27th Annual IEEE

Conference_Location

Baveno

ISSN

0275-9306

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3500-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PESC.1996.548844

Filename

548844