Infineon Technologies Solutions for Light Electric Vehicles (LEV)
Infineon Technologies Solutions for Light Electric Vehicles (LEV) have world-changing potential utilizing the emission-free solution for rising megacities. LEVs apply new technology enabling greater power efficiency, smaller size, lighter weight, and lower cost solutions. LEVs cost less when compared to gasoline or battery powered EVs, making them affordable and hence attractive to emerging markets, where a transition to electrified mobility is in progress.
Infineon’s LEV products and solutions cater to all design specifications and are tailored to customer needs. The LEV portfolio covers multiple functional blocks found in e-skateboards, e-scooters, pedal electric cycles (i.e. pedelecs), low-speed electric cars, e-forklifts, electrical three-wheelers, e-rickshaws, and many other applications. These devices include all the necessary components needed for motor control and inverters, battery chargers, battery management, air-conditioning systems, hydraulic control, sensing, as well as security and authentication.
The power range of scalable motor control units ranges from a few kilowatts to over 20kWs, while the voltages range from 24V to 169V. Power management, consumption, and voltage regulation are available in such products as high voltage CoolMOS™ SJ MOSFETs, low voltage OptiMOS™ and StrongIRFET™ power MOSFETs, SiC and GaN-based devices, XMC™, and AURIX™ microcontrollers, and EiceDRIVER™ gate driver ICs.
Features
- Common Features
- Strong price erosion which makes it a cost driven segment
- Time-to-market pressure, especially in emerging markets where a lot of newcomers to the industry seek market penetration
- Small form factors
- Relaxed lifetime expectations
- Growing demand for easy-to-use system-level solutions (plug-and-play, turnkey) comprising the technology, software, and hardware as well as services (e.g. software design) due to increasing system complexity
- High Power LEVs
- 10kW to 30kW power rating range
- 48V and 144V voltage range
- Low Power LEVs
- 1kW to 10kW power rating range
- 24V and 72V voltage range
Applications
- High Power LEVs
- Four-wheelers
- Light utility vehicles
- Low speed electric vehicles
- e-motorbikes
- e-forklifts
- Golf carts
- Low Power LEVs
- Two- and three-wheelers
- e-scooters (standing/self-balancing and folding types)
- e-bikes
- e-rickshaws
Additional Resources
High Power LEVs
High Power LEVs provide a longer operating range with highly efficient solutions at an attractive system cost. The High Power LEV devices extend the battery lifetime of e-forklifts, LSEVs, and e-motorbikes while providing robust performance.
High Power Low Speed Electric Vehicle Featured Products
HP Air Condition - MOSFETs & Gate Drivers
HP Motor Control - MOSFETs, IGBTs, LDO Regulators, Magnetic Sensors, Gate Drivers, & ARM Microcontrollers
HP Protection - MOSFETs & Security ICs / Authentication ICs
HP LEVs Block Diagram
Low Power LEVs
Low Power LEVs are power dense solutions at an optimal system cost. The Low Power LEVs offer best-in-class solutions for motor control whenever space and weight do not form limiting parameters.
Low Power Light Electric Vehicle Featured Products
LP Motor Control - Motor / Motion / Ignition Controllers, Magnetic Sensors, Gate Drivers, MOSFETs, & ARM Microcontrollers
LP Protection - MOSFETs & Security ICs / Authentication ICs
LP LEVs Block Diagram
Development Tools
Infineon Technologies Scheda condensatore KIT_LGCAP_BOM005
È una scheda di supporto per la piattaforma dimostrativa a potenza scalabile LVD.
Infineon Technologies Scheda figlia KIT_LGDB_BOM003
Utilizzata con la scheda dimostrativa a potenza scalabile a bassa tensione.
Infineon Technologies Scheda madre KIT_LGMB_BOM503
È una scheda di supporto per la piattaforma dimostrativa a potenza scalabile LVD.
Infineon Technologies KIT_LGMB_BOM003 Master Motherboard
Used for the low voltage drives scalable power demo board.
Infineon Technologies Scheda di potenza KIT_LGPWR_BOM003
Utilizza il MOSFET OptiMOS™ da 80 V in un package TOLL.
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3-phase motor drivers w/ARM Cortex-M3 MCU; designed for mechatronic BLDC motor-drive applications.