E-MOBILITY ENGINEERING 023 – February/March 2024

• Intro - Materials are a key to e-mobility designs, whether for lightweight structures or with the latest developments in battery coatings, or for exploitation of phase change materials
• The Grid - We consider how axial flux motors and in-fan motors are driving innovation on the ground and in the air, new LFP cells that charge in only six minutes and much more…
• In conversation: Tony Persson - Scania AB’s head of battery production explains his company’s key role in the development of electric vehicles for demanding applications
• Dossier: H3X - How the Colorado-based firm is boosting the power density of its motor drives to take electric aircraft even further
• Focus: Phase change materials - Phase change materials offer intriguing possibilities in the thermal management of EV powertrains
• Insight: Battery coatings - We find complex challenges within the development of coatings for battery applications
• Digest: Pulse 63 electric RHIB - We explore a new generation rigid hull inflatable boat that obtains benchmark performance from electrical energy
• Deep insight: Immersion cooling - Discussing the advantages of immersion cooling and the various forms that approach can take
• Focus: Battery inspection - Getting inside a battery to check its integrity or to trace a fault in a non-destructive manner is technologically challenging, as we explain
• PS: A question of bandgap - Wide bandgap semiconductors can be SiC or GaN: which would win in a fight? We explore that question