Automotive and Motorsport

At the end of May 2023, the students of the ThaiGerRacing team drove away from all the others: During the ShellEco-marathon in Nogaro/France, they won the European champion title in the hydrogen racing league – for the fifth time in a row. A success the team can be particularly proud …

Lane Motorsport is returning to the Professional Motorsport World Expo 2023 in Cologne, the key European exhibition for the motorsport industry. Lane Motorsport specialises in meeting the electrical and electronic interconnection demands of motorsport in all its forms and can provide the latest high performance connector technology from stock, simplifying …

Just four months after agreeing a strategic partnership with Guangzhou Zeer Testing Technology Co., Ltd. (Zeer), Ansible Motion has announced orders for two of its award-winning automotive driving simulators in China – to evaluate tomorrow’s vehicles safely and efficiently, today. Zeer is a leading, full-service provider of testing products and …

LUMotorsport, the Loughborough University Formula Student Team, will be attending the Formula Student UK (FSUK) 2023 race event at Silverstone Racetrack, which will be open to the public on Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd July. Lane Motorsport has been supporting LUMotorsport in their efforts to design a single-seat racing car …

Automotive designers are looking to replace legacy gateway subsystems with technology that can migrate applications to an Ethernet network to easily access information from the edge to the cloud. To provide OEMs with automotive-qualified Ethernet solutions, Microchip Technology today announces its first automotive-qualified Ethernet PHYs. This family of 10BASE-T1S devices …

Companies offering drivetrain testing services need to be flexible. With potential customers ranging from suppliers of specialist components for the powertrain or transmission, right up to the world’s leading car manufacturers, they need adaptable test solutions that can be quickly broken down and rebuilt to meet the needs of each …

Nidec  and Renesas have agreed to join forces on the development of semiconductor solutions for a next-generation E-Axle (X-in-1 system) that integrates an EV drive motor and power electronics for electric vehicles (EVs). Today’s EVs are increasingly adopting the 3-in-1 unit called E-Axle, which integrates a motor, inverter, and gearbox (reduction …

Pre-Switch, the company that has developed the world’s first AI-based forced-resonant, soft-switching technology enabling ultra-efficient DC/AC, AC/DC inverters running at 100kHz and above, has added the ability to reprogram its Pre-Flex soft-switching motor/inverter SoC, enabling products in development or in the field to be updated to give even higher performance. …

High-voltage electrical subsystems throughout Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) and Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs) require a mechanism to protect the high-voltage distribution and loads in the event of an overload condition. To provide BEV and HEV designers with a faster and more reliable high-voltage circuit protection solution, Microchip Technology has announced …

Analog Devices, Inc. is supporting the first roll-out of Team wob-racing’s latest Formula Student race car, the WR17. As a platinum sponsor of the student team, ADI continues to support the future of engineering talent in the automotive industry. The race car utilises a wide range of ADI’s technology within …