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Automotive Traction Inverters: Current Status and Future Trends

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An independent review of the state-of-the-art traction inverter designs from several production vehicles across multiple manufacturers is presented, highlighting wide bandgap devices and trends in device packaging.
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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.

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High efficiency SiC traction inverter for electric vehicle applications

TL;DR: In this article, a 30 kW rated SiC inverter achieving 99.5% peak efficiency, and high power density (15 kW/L), including cooling plate, drivers and controller, is compared with a conventional IGBT based inverter system in standard EPA driving cycles.
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Practical Considerations Relating to Immersion Cooling of Power Electronics in Traction Systems

TL;DR: In this paper, two dual-side-soldered insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) modules immersion cooled in a hydrofluoroether C3F7OCH3 liquid were measured experimentally.
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Sensing IGBT junction temperature using gate drive output transient properties

TL;DR: In this article, a non-invasive method that integrates junction temperature sensing into the IGBT gate drive and enables high bandwidth sensing is presented, and an IGBT power module is implemented in an H-bridge and driven by four push-pull type gate drives.
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory Annual Progress Report for the Power Electronics and Electric Machinery Program

TL;DR: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE&E) and the Council for Automotive Research (CAR) developed a new cooperative research effort comprising of automakers Ford Motor Company, General Motors Company, and Chrysler Group, Tesla Motors, and representatives of the electric utility and petroleum industries.
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