Interesting teardown of inverters & drivetrains

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Interesting teardown of inverters & drivetrains

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I found this document that contains lots of interesting stats and pictures from various hybrid & EV components:
https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files ... 2017_o.pdf

This picture got me thinking (from a BMW i3):
Screen Shot 2020-04-01 at 09.59.10.png
Does anyone know of any other EV that has a single unit for the inverter/DC:DC/AC charger? The i3 unit looks too big & heavy for my application (and presumably it's 100% closed source...), but the idea of a single box to do everything is very appealing. For example, that Prius 4 unit is tiny and would more or less fit in my bike... :evil:
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Re: Interesting teardown of inverters & drivetrains

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clanger9 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 01, 2020 9:02 am I found this document that contains lots of interesting stats and pictures from various hybrid & EV components:
https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files ... 2017_o.pdf

This picture got me thinking (from a BMW i3):
Screen Shot 2020-04-01 at 09.59.10.png

Does anyone know of any other EV that has a single unit for the inverter/DC:DC/AC charger? The i3 unit looks too big & heavy for my application (and presumably it's 100% closed source...), but the idea of a single box to do everything is very appealing. For example, that Prius 4 unit is tiny and would more or less fit in my bike... :evil:
VW inverter is even smaller and it has 2kW DCDC inside.
For charger you will have to get another unit though.
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