Remy and MotoCzysz to Bring Advance Electric Drive System to Automobile Market
By Scott Doggett August 25, 2010
Remy Electric Motors and design and engineering firm MotoCzysz have to work together bring a revolutionary, new generation electric drive system to market.
Right, Remy International's HVH motor.
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The announcement comes less than two months after Remy International Inc., the largest U.S.-based supplier of electric motors for hybrid cars and Remy Electric Motors' parent, said it will work with Enova Systems on developing an electric-motor control system.
The unique drive system announced today leverages Remy Motors' patented High Voltage Hairpin (HVH) electric motor technology and patent-pending cooling and integration technology from MotoCzysz, the companies said in a joint statement today.
"The resulting breakthrough is a complete electric-drive system optimized to elicit and manage the full performance benefit of the powerful Remy motor," they said.
The companies said the new integrated D1g1tal Dr1ve is the first of its kind of a new classification of complete electric-drive solutions. They hope its compact size, originating from motorcycle racing, will provide a remarkable efficiency advantage to automobile and other vehicle manufacturers.
The system was originally designed to fit a motorcycle frame. When applied to automobiles, this weight and size advantage, coupled with disproportionately high performance, "will leapfrog other systems and provide OEMs, integrators and converters unheard of efficiencies," the companies said.
In typical electric vehicles, various components from a variety of vendors are assembled and then connected together via wires. The D1g1tal Dr1ve system optimizes and matches all high-voltage components in a single housing. The highly integrated system is packaged as a "super axle" located between the two drive wheels, delivering torque with claimed unprecedented efficiency and compactness.
The first D1g1tal Dr1ve utilizing a liquid-cooled Remy internal permanent magnet motor will create class-leading 250 pound-feet of torque at 93 percent efficiency, measured at the rotor, the companies said. Future models will extend the D1g1tal Dr1ve range to include an even more powerful drive as well as a smaller, more compact option.
Remy and MotoCzysz will make the game-changing D1g1tal Dr1ve unit available in the second quarter of 2011, the companies said.
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