Nidec Advance Technology Corporation, a Nidec Group company, announced today that it has developed E-Transport Simulator. Specifically, the integrated simulation tool will support the designing and analysis of *xEV (electric vehicles).

This tool performs, during xEV development, a simulation of an entire electric vehicle. Moreover, this includes the individual characteristics of the E-Axle, which houses an automotive drive motor, a gear, an inverter, and other components.

This function enables the tool’s users to propose, among others, motors and components that match the vehicle’s conditions and running environment. In addition, it shortens the time for motor test via detailed calculation and improves the efficiency of the calculation-result gap analysis.
It is possible to add functions to this tool. Thus, can perform simulations on drones, eVTOL aircrafts, flying vehicles, trains, airplanes, vessels, and other vehicles that supply and generate electricity.  

How the Company developed E-Transport Simulator

Automobile electrification, growing worldwide, requires the optimization of an entire car as a single system, not the development of a vehicle’s individual components. For that reason, Nidec Advance Technology has developed E-Transport Simulator to create and optimize a digital twin of an entire electric vehicle. Thus, making it an alternative instead of making such a digital twin of its individual components. 

E-Transport Simulator’s features

Installed with AI that searches for optimum parameter solutions for multiple components, E-Transport Simulator performs detailed calculation. Therefore, enabling it to generate an electric vehicle’s digital twin, while making multiple proposals on efficient combinations of various motors, inverters, batteries, bodies, and other components.

These features enable E-Transport Simulator’s users to examine an entire electric vehicle’s characteristics in the early phases of product development. 

Effects that E-Transport Simulator can bring

With the combination of the overall optimization and the use of actual components, it is possible to use E-Transport Simulator in all EV development phases. Particularly, from the start-up phase to detailed assessment. On the other hand, the tool can shorten product development time significantly and reduce prototype development costs. 

Expansion of E-Transport Simulator’s scope of application and future usages

In anticipation of the expansion of E-Transport Simulator’s scope of application, Nidec Advance Technology plans to add such functions. Specifically, as multiple-motors analysis and new-structure motor analysis, while discussing how to meet its customers’ customizing needs. Moreover, how to integrate the tool with the Company’s motor bench, to significantly reduce the time required for characteristic analysis.

Meanwhile, the Nidec Group stays committed to selling internally produced products developed with the use of its inspection apparats-related technologies. Thus, optimizing an entire system by saving motors’ energy for better electricity consumption. At the same time, proposing revolutionary solutions that contribute to reducing the Earth’s environmental load.

Note: 

*xEV: A term for electric vehicles in general, including battery electric vehicle (BEV), hybrid electric vehicle (HEV), plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV), and fuel-cell electric vehicle (FCEV).

22 July 2024