Electrical Motor Drives for Electric Vehicle

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National Institute for R&D in Electrical Engineering ICPE-CA, Bucharest, Romania
Interests: traction motor drives; traction motors; power converters; automated vehicles; control and automation of electric powered vehicles

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National Institute for R&D in Electrical Engineering ICPE-CA, Bucharest, Romania
Interests: power electronics, semiconductor, and electrochemical microsensors; sensitive element and electronic conditioning systems for sensors; applications of magnetic nanofluids in the field of sensing (as sensing element), microactuation and energy security; piezo-ceramic micro-actuators; electrostrictive actuators; magnetostrictive actuators; electromagnetic actuators; electrodynamic and electrothermal actuators; "harvesting energy" type devices
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Association for Promoting Electric Vehicles in Romania—AVER, Bucharest, Romania
Interests: electricity energy conversion; power converters; power electronics; electric mobility and renewable energy

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Dear Colleagues,

Electric vehicles use one or more motors to produce torque. Each motor is supplied with energy by dedicated electronic power converters. From a vehicle's builder's point of view, this is the car's powertrain. With various improvements, the motor and power converter are built in the same frame, reducing the cooling effort and minimizing noise and electromagnetic interference. Achieving this requires an interdisciplinary approach involving specialists in motor development, power converters, electronic control, sensors, liquid cooling systems, mechanics, and electromagnetic compatibility.

Welcome to this Special Issue, where we compile articles from specialists developing electric motors and drives for electric traction vehicles. This includes integrated solutions for small cars and distributed solutions for high-power vehicles such as trams, trolleybuses, electric buses, and trucks.

The most important characteristic of the electric drive components is efficiency as it has a major influence on a vehicle's autonomy, cooling effort, and temperature variation, which are the major challenges of vehicular components.

The second issue is the dynamic response of the electric drive to the driver's command and road condition reactions, thus making the electric-powered vehicle more friendly to the driver and safer on the road. This Special Issue aims to reveal this area's current efforts and progress.

You are welcome to submit a manuscript for this Special Issue. Academic researchers and authors from the industry involved in the field are invited to contribute original research articles and reviews.

Research areas may comprise (but are not limited to) the following:

  • Traction motor drives;
  • Traction motor;
  • Power converters;
  • Control and automation of electric-powered vehicles;
  • Sensors used in electric vehicle powertrains;
  • Batteries monitoring in automotive applications;
  • Fault diagnosis techniques for electrical powertrain systems;
  • Actuators for automotive applications.

Dr. Emil Tudor
Dr. Lucian Pîslaru-Dănescu
Dr. Mihaita-Gabriel Neacsu
Prof. Dr. Zhongze Wu
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Keywords

  • traction motor drives
  • traction motor
  • power converters
  • automated guided vehicles
  • control and automation of electric powered vehicles
  • sensors and actuators
  • battery monitoring

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A Study on the Design of a Fault-Tolerant Consequent-Pole Hybrid Excited Machine for Electric Vehicles
by Guangyu Qu, Jinyi Yu, Zhenghan Li and Wei Liu
World Electr. Veh. J. 2025, 16(3), 130; https://doi.org/10.3390/wevj16030130 - 26 Feb 2025
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In this paper, a new fault-tolerant consequent-pole hybrid excited (FTCPHE) machine with toroidal winding (TW) is designed for electric vehicles (EVs). In this proposed machine, U-type permanent magnets (PMs) are adopted in the consequent-pole rotor with the sequence of PM–iron–PM–iron. The stator tooth [...] Read more.
In this paper, a new fault-tolerant consequent-pole hybrid excited (FTCPHE) machine with toroidal winding (TW) is designed for electric vehicles (EVs). In this proposed machine, U-type permanent magnets (PMs) are adopted in the consequent-pole rotor with the sequence of PM–iron–PM–iron. The stator tooth placed in the stator is classified into two groups to achieve hybrid excitation. The TW is positioned on the stator yoke to achieve the simple structure and excellent fault-tolerant ability. First, the topology of this proposed FTCPHE machine with the TW is briefly introduced and compared to that with the traditional combined winding. Second, the operation principle, the magnetic circuit, and the design procedure of the FTCPHE machine are analyzed and illustrated. Third, several key structural parameters of the proposed FTCPHE machine are discussed and designed to improve electromagnetic performances. Next, some electromagnetic properties, including the flux distribution, the no-load back-EMF, the electromagnetic torque, the cogging torque, and the fault-tolerant ability, are discussed in detail. Finally, a prototype of this proposed FTCPHE machine is manufactured to validate the simulated results. Full article
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Analytical Calculation of Mutual Inductance of Search Coils in Interior Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor
by Xinmin Li, Chenfeng Sun, Zhezhun Xu and Chen Li
World Electr. Veh. J. 2024, 15(12), 577; https://doi.org/10.3390/wevj15120577 - 14 Dec 2024
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Inductance is an important parameter for motor design and control, and the performance of the motor is closely related to the inductance parameter. To solve the problem of the complex magnetic circuit structure of search coil mutual inductance, this paper takes an 8-pole [...] Read more.
Inductance is an important parameter for motor design and control, and the performance of the motor is closely related to the inductance parameter. To solve the problem of the complex magnetic circuit structure of search coil mutual inductance, this paper takes an 8-pole and 48-slot interior permanent magnet synchronous motor (IPMSM) as the object to carry out the relevant research on the formula of search coil mutual inductance, illustrates the method of calculating the mutual inductance of the search coil, and compares and verifies the proposed method through finite element analysis and the actual measurement results. By setting up a procedure for calculating the magnetic flux of the search coil, the magnetic flux of each sub-coil of the search coil is analyzed and calculated. The mutual inductance of the search coil is calculated by summing up the magnetic chains of different sub-coils between the phases of the search coil. Lastly, the finite element simulation of the permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) with the placement of the search coil is carried out, the inductance of the search coil in the experimental prototype is measured practically, and the finite element simulation results of the mutual inductance of the search coil are compared with the actual measurement results, which proves the correctness of the theoretical analysis. Full article
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