ENGINEERING EXPERTISE
Motiv’s focus is on solving challenging, multidisciplinary engineering problems related to energy storage and power management systems. We bring unique and valuable cross-discipline experience in designing, simulating and prototyping components and systems for EV’s and stationary battery storage. Below is a list of our engineering capabilities.
Battery Packs
- Pack enclosure, internal bracketing, and thermal design
- Experience with cylindrical (18650) and prismatic cells
- 3D CAD (Solidworks, Autodesk Inventor)
- Electronics Enclosure Design
- Air, Liquid, Evaporative Cooling System Design
- Simulation and Analysis
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Thermal Analysis
- Structural FEA Analysis
Battery Management Systems
- Innovative electrical and thermal balancing solutions
- Electrical Simulation
- Schematic Capture & PCB Layout
- Experience with Freescale, TI, Intel Arm Microcontrollers
- Fault Tolerant Embedded Systems
Power Management Systems
- High efficiency, low cost, custom converter solutions
- Switch Mode Power Converters up to 400 kW and 1.2 kV
- Topologies Including
- 3-phase inverter
- Bi-directional Buck, Boost
- Gate drive Circuitry
- Isolation Design
- Component Selection
- Passives
- IGBTs
- MOSFETs
- Soft Switching
- Topologies Including
- Magnetics Modeling and Design
- Bus Bar Design
Control Algorithm Development
- Real-time Embedded Control Systems
- Motor Control Algorithm Development
- 6-step control for BLDC Machines
- Vector Control for Sinusoidal Permanent Magnet Machines
- Direct and Indirect Field Oriented Control for AC Induction Machines
- Networked Communication Systems