SHERIDAN, WYOMING – June 29, 2022 – Proper thermal management of an electric vehicle is much more complex than that of a conventional vehicle with a combustion engine. In electrified off-highway vehicles, the electric motor and power electronics must always be cooled, while the battery – depending on the outside temperature and load – must either be cooled or heated. For heating the cabin, which formerly used the waste heat of the combustion engine, electrical energy must be consumed from the battery. 

This is where Ymer’s thermal management system (TMS) comes in, on display at iVT Expo. As Josef Graubmann, director of thermal management systems at Ymer explained, in order to distribute the heat in the vehicle and provide the right temperatures, it is crucial that the cooling, heating and refrigeration circuits interact optimally to respond to different heating or cooling requirements and use existing thermal energy as efficiently as possible. 

SHERIDAN, WYOMING – June 29, 2022 – Though the market is moving toward electrification, hydraulics remains a vital part of many industrial vehicles. They are hard to beat in terms of power density, as highlighted by Dynaset’s range of hydraulic-powered equipment on show at iVT Expo. 

“High-pressure compressors are one of our bestsellers, and our high-power water pumps, which can operate at 150 bar, have exceptional power density and are also very popular,” noted Henri Hypen, area sales manager for the company. “We have been developing our existing products and developing new ones. The possibilities for hydraulics are endless, beyond the basic applications of electricity generation, high-pressure water and air. You would be surprised what you are able to do with hydraulics.”

SHERIDAN, WYOMING – June 29, 2022 – Energy efficiency is a hot topic across the industrial vehicle sector, and iVT exhibitor GreenBrakes is looking to help manufacturers reduce energy consumption with its electromechanical brake systems. 

“The benefit of our system is the speed of actuation: it takes 75ms to lockup,” explained Markus Schiffer, the company’s CTO. “The technology we use is a non-linear gear drive and that gives us the advantage of really high speed at the start of the braking event, when braking forces are low. It costs us a little bit of speed when the forces increase, but it makes the brake much faster than hydraulics as braking begins.”

SHERIDAN, WYOMING – June 29, 2022 – Bluways, a developer of SiC-based inverters, high-power NMC batteries and electric motors used iVT Expo to debut its latest development, a 15kW permanent magnet, axial flux motor with fully integrated power electronics. 

“Each inductor on the motor has its own inverter,” explained Wim Vander Kuylen, project manager at Bluways. “What that means is that you have complete redundancy: even if one fails, the motor will still run.” 

SHERIDAN, WYOMING – June 29, 2022 – Pankl is displaying its fuel cell air supply (FCAS) systems at iVT Expo, designed to support the next generation of high-performance fuel cells across a range from 30-300kW. The systems incorporate a variety of design innovations such as high-efficiency air foil bearings, ultra-high-speed permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSM) and leading-edge inverter technology, all of which contribute to increasing stack power density and netting significant power gains.

“We see at the moment a very strong demand for high-performance boosting in fuel cells. Manufacturers are looking for very efficient solutions for both large and small fuel cell systems, and each application has different requirements,” explained Rodrigo Costa, business development manager at Pankl Turbosystems.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING – May 20, 2022 –

Addressing a Year of Continued Crisis: Financial Results Announcement Q&A Session

SHERIDAN, WYOMING – May 20, 2022 –

#3 Digging Through Designs: The Transmission Team Starts from Scratch (Part 1)

SHERIDAN, WYOMING – May 20, 2022 – Toyota's AI Basketball Robot CUE5: Developers Continue to Forge Ahead to Give Back (Installment Four)

CUE is Toyota’s AI basketball robot and member of the Alvark Tokyo, a team in the Japanese professional basketball league (B.League). In 2019, CUE set the Guinness World Record for the most consecutive basketball free throws by a humanoid robot.

Let’s begin with a brief recap of CUE’s development journey, as covered in the previous three installments on Toyota’s newsroom site linked below.

#1 An In-house Challenge: Novices embark on a new project from scratch

#2 CUE3 Shoots for a Guinness World Record™

SHERIDAN, WYOMING – May 20, 2022 –

With hydrogen coursing through its engine, the H2 Corolla is back for another year of the Super Taikyu race series.

The car put on another solid performance over the weekend of March 19-20, completing the 5-hour race at Suzuka Circuit in Suzuka City, Mie Prefecture.

With finished races already becoming a familiar sight, efforts to increase options for achieving carbon neutrality are set to go into higher gear this season.

 

SHERIDAN, WYOMING – May 20, 2022 – Breaking: FY2022 Toyota Financial Results and its Strengthened Profit Structure