Development of New Motor for Compact-Class Hybrid Vehicles

Shinya Sano; Takahisa Yashiro; Keiji Takizawa; Tatsuhiko Mizutani

doi:10.3390/wevj8020443

World Electric Vehicle Journal is published by MDPI from Volume 9 issue 1 (2018). Previous articles were published by The World Electric Vehicle Association (WEVA) and its member the European Association for e-Mobility (AVERE), the Electric Drive Transportation Association (EDTA), and the Electric Vehicle Association of Asia Pacific (EVAAP). They are hosted by MDPI on mdpi.com as a courtesy and upon agreement with AVERE.

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24 June 2016

Development of New Motor for Compact-Class Hybrid Vehicles

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World Electr. Veh. J.2016, 8(2), 443-449;https://doi.org/10.3390/wevj8020443

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To exceed the top-level fuel efficiency of the 2009 Prius, a new motor was developed for installation in compact class hybrid vehicles including the new Prius. For the stator, segment coil stator with distributed winding was developed and achieved weight reduction and copper loss reduction. As for the rotor, highspeed, low-loss rotor was developed and achieved size reduction and volume of magnet used was reduced. Also, the motor cooling system was newly designed to improve the motor cooling performance. This paper describes the features of the new motor for the compact class hybrid vehicles including the new Prius.

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hybrid vehicles; stator; rotor; motor cooling

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