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Electric motor manufacturer Linear Labs has closed a
$4.5-million funding round to market its flagship motor,
the Hunstable Electric Turbine.
The Hunstable Electric Turbine uses multiple rotors.
Compared to available permanent magnet motors,
Linear Labs says its motor produces twice the torque,
three times the power density, two times the output and
10 percent more range.
“This is a major accomplishment by an electric motor,
which supersedes other commercially available electric
propulsion units,” said Babak Fahimi, Founding Director
of the Renewable Energy and Vehicular Technology
Laboratory at the University of Texas at Dallas. “I believe
that the deployment and commercialization of the
Hunstable Electric Turbine will result in substantial leaps
in terms of energy savings, reliability enhancement and
low-cost manufacturing.”
“The Hunstable Electric Turbine motor has variable
speed and twice the torque while using less voltage,
which means it can help electric cars have better range
and reduced productions costs and switch ACs to single-
stage motors that shut on and off to hold a temperature,”
said Peter Pham, co-founder of Science Inc., which
participated in the funding round.ION Energy, a battery technology company that
specializes in battery management and intelligence,
has launched the FS-XT, a battery management system
targeted at EVs and grid-scale storage systems.
To manage the high-voltage batteries needed in EVs,
the FS-XT has a modular design based on a master-slave
configuration. This allows manufacturers to use the BMS
for any application between 100 and 1,000 volts. The
master BMS contains 4 channels, each of which can be
connected to 10 slave BMSs in a daisy chain formation,
allowing manufacturers to scale the FS-XT to manage up
to 720 cells in series. ION Energy says this versatility will
allow the FS-XT to be used across a wide variety of next-
generation EVs.
By 2020, ION hopes to have 1 GWh of batteries under
management, with the FS-XT accounting for 60% of that
total.
ION Energy CEO Akhil Aryan said, “Battery power
is finding all sorts of applications from forklifts and cars
to grid-scale energy storage systems. To be ahead of the
curve of this acceleration in adoption of Li-ion batteries,
we’ve launched the FS-XT, our battery management
system for high-power applications.”Linear Labs raises $4.5 million
to market its electric motor
ION Energy launches BMS for
EVs and grid-scale storage
Image courtesy of Linear LabsImage courtesy of ION Energy