Automotive Traction Inverters: Current Status and Future Trends
By John Reimers, Lea Dorn-Gomba, Christopher Mak, Ali Emadi. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2019
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Traction inverters are crucial components of modern electrified automotive powertrains. Advances in power electronics have enabled lower cost inverters with high reliability, efficiency, and power density, suitable for mass market consumer automotive applications. This paper presents an independent review of the state-of-the-art traction inverter designs from several production vehicles across multiple manufacturers. Future trends in inverter design are identified based on industry examples and academic research. Wide bandgap devices and trends in device packaging are discussed along with active gate driver implementations, current and future trends in system integration, and advanced manufacturing techniques.
Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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