Connected car news includes BASF, Toyota Motor, May Mobility and Udelv, Lion Electric, Toyota, AllOver Media, ATLIS Motor Vehicles, Volvo, ADI, Hyundai Mobis, Netradyne, Renesas and EPC.
BASF is now filling 20%, 30% and 40% carbon fiber reinforced grades with carbon fiber reinforced grades to expand Ultramid®Advanced’s polyphthalamide (PPA) product portfolio. The advantages of these new materials: They can make extremely lightweight parts, can safely replace aluminum and magnesium without losing stiffness and strength, and have electrical conductivity. The new grade combines these characteristics with the advantages of Ultramid®Advanced N (PA9T), which makes it unique among the existing carbon fiber reinforced PPAs on the market: due to low water absorption, high dimensional stability, excellent chemical and hydrolysis resistance.. High strength and modulus. The new carbon fiber (CF) reinforced grade can be used to manufacture automotive structural parts for body, chassis and powertrain, pumps, fans, gears and compressors in industrial applications, and stable and ultra-light components in consumer electronics. . With this product, BASF has supplemented the existing PPA product portfolio of more than 50 grades on the market.
The mechanical properties of the new carbon fiber reinforced PPA grades can be adjusted through the selection and content of carbon fibers and the addition technology. Ultramid® Advanced N3HC8 with 40% carbon fiber filling shows better strength and modulus than magnesium or aluminum at 80°C (after adjustment). “Our new carbon fiber PPA compound is an ideal metal substitute,” said Michael Pilarski of BASF’s PPA business management department. “And this is not only from the point of view of material properties. Recently, we have seen safety issues from magnesium producers in different countries, which makes the supply unpredictable. Parts made of magnesium or aluminum require additional post-processing and tools. It will increase system costs. With our new PPA grades, with a 25% to 30% weight reduction opportunity, we can provide safe, cost-effective and high-performance alternatives to parts traditionally made of metal.”
Toyota Transportation Foundation (TMF) and Energy System Network (ESN) designated May Mobility and Udelv as the first two deployments of the future transportation zone plan. The “Future Travel Zone Program” established in cooperation with the Indiana Economic Development Corporation (IEDC) aims to promote innovation through industrial partnerships and promote the research and development of advanced travel technologies in Indiana. TMF established the “Future Transportation Zone Plan” to support Toyota’s “Transport for All” mission and its commitment to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (in this case, “Sustainable Cities and Communities Goal 11″).
Phillips 66 and Faradion are one of the British companies to showcase sodium-ion powered vehicles for the first time. They have launched technical cooperation to develop lower cost and higher performance sodium ion battery anode materials.
Sodium ion battery technology has inherent advantages over other power storage technologies because it uses sustainable and widely used low-cost materials. Carbon is the preferred anode material for batteries, and it is expected that this collaboration will leverage Phillips 66’s experience in developing specialty carbon materials and Faradion’s work as a leader in sodium ion battery technology.
The Secure Technology Alliance (Secure Technology Alliance) today released a white paper that outlines the path to an open payment infrastructure for electric vehicle (EV) charging and payment. Today, drivers must establish an account or membership with each charging point operator (CPO) in order to charge at their stations. With at least 10 EV CPOs and more than 20,000 charging stations in North America, an open payment infrastructure can greatly improve the user experience from one charging station to another.
The white paper “Open Payment Framework for Electric Vehicle Charges with ISO 15118″ can be downloaded from https://www.securetechalliance.org/publications-electric-vehicle-charging-open-payment-framework-with-iso-15118. /.
Lion Electric (Lion), a leading manufacturer of all-electric mid- and heavy-duty city vehicles, announced today that it has received an order for its all-electric school buses from the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). Lion initially ordered 10 LionC school buses. This is after Lion’s recent delivery of all-electric school buses to the Twin Rivers Unified School District in Sacramento, further consolidating Lion’s leadership in zero-emission school buses in California and North America.
As the winter storm Uri last week caused millions of Texass to lose power or water, North Texas-based Toyota Motor North America (TMNA) has pledged to provide $1 million in disaster relief. The assistance will provide services to customers and various non-profit organizations in Texas.
Toyota provides support to all U.S. employees to respond to individual recovery from unexpected disasters. In addition, Toyota will provide individual employee donations of up to $10,000 to non-profit organizations that have recovered from the storm.
Toyota Financial Services (TFS) announced that it will provide payment reduction options for customers affected by the storm. The wide range of services includes any TFS or Lexus Financial Services customers in the designated disaster area. Affected rental and finance customers living in the affected area may be eligible for several payment relief options, some of which include:
AllOver Media, LLC, the largest alternative outdoor advertising company in the United States, announced a long-term partnership with OBE Power to sell sponsors on its rapidly growing network of electric vehicle charging stations.
GreenPower Motor Company Inc., a leading zero-emission, electric medium and heavy-duty vehicle manufacturer and distributor, announced today that it has received an order from Zeem Solutions for 30 GreenPower EV Stars.
Zeem Solutions provides electric transportation logistics solutions for small, medium and large fleet operators across the United States, and provides comprehensive solutions including vehicles, maintenance, tolling and infrastructure, at a monthly cost of one. Zeem’s order will include five different seat layouts, including wheelchair accessible units and freight configurations. The EV Star sold to Zeem was previously leased to Green Commuter.
ATLIS Motor Vehicle Company and Clemson University have collaborated to advance the development of electric car batteries, which charge faster, have a longer service life, and can be scaled to suit various car models.
ATLIS is a start-up company located in Arizona that is developing batteries and battery packs to power the Atlis XP platform and XT pickup trucks. The Clemson Nanomaterials Institute (CNI) is jointly conducting related battery research. In order to further promote the development of this technology, ATLIS and Clemson signed a three-year overall research agreement, the agreement by CNI founder and director Apparao Rao, nanomaterials expert, RA Bowen professor of physics and four prestigious Member of the Society-Leader of the American Physical Society. , American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Institute of Inventors and Materials Research Society. Rao’s research focuses on understanding and using the properties of nanomaterials for energy harvesting and energy storage.
At CNI, Professor Rao, his research assistants and students will assist ATLIS to further develop its battery technology. Unlike existing battery designs, ATLIS batteries will use a customized coating to achieve a balance between energy and power. These coatings, coupled with a special mechanical structure, will result in optimized energy capacity and reduced charging time.
ADI and Volvo Cars announced today that Volvo Cars’ first all-electric SUV Volvo XC40 charger will use ADI integrated circuits (ICs) that support battery management systems (BMS) and car audio bus® (A2B). These advanced technologies provide an attractive total cost of ownership for electric vehicles by reducing the weight of the vehicle and maximizing the driving range, while also supporting a sustainable future.
The Volvo XC40 P8 supply vehicle is a semi-finalist for the 2021 “North American Car, Truck and Utility Vehicle of the Year™” (NACTOY) utility vehicle. The NACTOY Awards are designed to recognize excellence in innovation, design, safety, handling, driver satisfaction and value. The award aims to recognize the most outstanding new car of the year.
Hyundai Mobis announced that the company has become the first company in the world to develop HLEDs that can be bent like thin films. Now, a single LED can be used as a brake light and a tail light at the same time, and the thickness of the LED surface is only 5.5mm.
Hyundai Mobis named this new tail light system HLED as HLED, which symbolizes high performance, high definition and homogeneity.
Nowadays, according to safety regulations, the tail lights and stop lights of most vehicles are separated. According to the law, the brake lights must be much brighter than the tail lights.
However, the HLED developed by Hyundai Mobis can realize the tail light and parking light as a single LED by controlling the light with only electrical signals.
In addition, even if the HLED is bent by emitting light in five different directions, it can produce bright and uniform brake lights. As a result, vehicle drivers approaching from the rear and the side will more easily see the taillights.
Compared with existing tube lamps, HLEDs can be bent or bent, so various lamp designs can be created. It can also ensure more space and provide lighter weight, because it can control the lighting by using only new LEDs, thereby eliminating all internal components used in the existing taillights.
Hyundai Mobis has passed European (ECE) and American (SAE) reliability tests for taillights and parking lights. It has received orders from European automakers and is currently developing HLED mass production.
Netradyne, a leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and edge computing focused on driver and fleet safety, announced the launch of DriveriHub®, expanding the Driveri product portfolio. The DriveriHub, designed for scalability, is bundled as an accessory to Driveri®, allowing customers to add up to four additional cameras to an existing installation to obtain a complete 360-degree exterior view of the entire vehicle. By connecting additional cameras to DriveriHub, drivers and fleets can now safely and confidently watch the entire vehicle throughout the day.
Although Netradyne’s Driveri D-410 and D-210 help fleets of all sizes improve the overall safe driving experience through active driving recognition, automatic coaching, and the industry’s most advanced patented AI and object detection, the views covered by Driveri’s core equipment remain Moving forward, the cab and the sides of the vehicle are sufficient to ensure safe driving in all road conditions. Other cameras connected to DriveriHub can expand these views according to the needs of the fleet. From the internal view of the school bus to the side of the trailer or the rear of the vehicle, DriveriHub uses standard Wifi to ensure coverage of all scenarios that the fleet can consider. This includes trucks loaded with cargo at the rear, waste management on the sides or rear, and oil and gas vehicles used to view sensitive areas such as valve connections. In the cab, the driver can use all camera views to ensure that the driver has full control and can always operate the fleet vehicles safely.
DriveriHub is usually installed in the car and the camera is connected outside the car. Through the WIFI connection with the Driveri device, DriveriHub uses the same high-quality HD video to increase visibility. Customers can seamlessly request videos through the fleet manager portal for guidance or incident analysis. DriveriHub includes support for in-cab monitors designed for drivers to view all camera angles in full.
Driveri is supported by Edge Computing and AI. It is a vision-based security platform that uses a camera system to view inside and outside the vehicle, continuously analyzes driving scenes and road data, and uses AI directly embedded in the edge computing device to monitor the driver’s behavior. It captures various roads and traffic scenes, such as commercial lanes, temporarily closed roads, street-facing roads, school areas, and so on. To date, Driveri has captured more than 1.2 million positive driving events, allowing drivers to obtain better recognition and increase retention rates. In addition, the system also recorded more than 3 billion minutes of “viewing” events, which the traditional “trigger-based” camera system does not.
Renesas Electronics Corporation, a major supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, and LUPA-Electronics GmbH, an automotive safety solutions provider, today announced an open front camera solution EagleCAM module with Renesas’ R-Car V3H and R -Car V3M system, on-chip (SoC) device. The all-in-one expandable camera platform addresses the latest Euro NCAP and C-NCAP requirements, such as automatic emergency braking, forward collision warning, lane keeping assist, and traffic sign recognition. The jointly developed solution enables OEMs and Tier 1s to add new driving functions by integrating their proprietary or third-party software, thus being able to differentiate and expand their products.
Most smart camera turnkey solutions on the market today have adopted a black box solution approach, which makes it difficult for OEMs and Tier 1 manufacturers to respond to changing market demands and slow down the development speed. With EagleCAM with R-Car SoC, Renesas and LUPA have introduced an open turnkey solution that provides flexible high-performance perception capabilities while reducing time to market and lower bill of materials (BOM) costs.
Voltaiq, the leader of Enterprise Battery Intelligence™ (EBI) software, announced a new member of its advisory board, representing industry pioneers among automotive, consumer electronics and battery manufacturers. This group of thought leaders from all over the world has gathered expertise to solve global challenges in understanding and optimizing battery behavior in real-world application settings. The new board members include: Carl-Peter Forster, former CEO and President of General Motors Europe; Robert Garlin, Chairman of Garin Energy Co., Ltd.; Peter Haeussermann, General Manager of Mitsubishi Electric; Chris Perry, Chief Innovation Officer of Weber Shandwick; Richard Spitzer, Founder and Managing Partner of Escavel Capital; Dr. V. Sumantran, Chairman of Celeris Technologies; Ralph Szygenda, Chairman and CEO of RJS Solutions; Martin Thall, President of Automotive Technology Partners; ChargePoint Rick Wagoner, Director of Inc.; Kevin Whalen, President of Rohrich Automotive Group.
EPC announced the launch of a laser driver that integrates a 40 V, 10 A FET with an integrated gate driver and 3.3 logic level input in a single chip for use in robots, surveillance systems, drones, and unmanned driving Cars, and vacuum cleaners.
EPC21601 is a laser driver controlled by 3.3 V logic, capable of modulating a laser drive current of up to 10 A in extremely high frequencies over 100 MHz and ultra-short pulses of <2 ns. The turn-on and turn-off time is 410 ps. And 320 ps respectively. EPC21601 is a single-chip driver, coupled with eGaN®FET, using EPC’s proprietary GaN IC technology, the chip size BGA size is only 1.5 mm x 1.0 mm. Due to its compact size and integration of multiple functions, the overall solution on the printed circuit board (PCB) is 36% smaller than the equivalent multi-chip discrete implementation.
EPC21601 is the first product in a broad series of integrated laser driver ICs to be offered in chip scale packaging (CSP). The integrated device in a single chip is easier to design, easier to lay out, and easier to assemble, saves space on the PCB, improves efficiency and reduces costs.
Post time: Mar-10-2021
