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Electrical measuring technology for electromobility – Reliable equipment for high-voltage applications

Electrification is playing an increasingly important role in a wide range of vehicle classes and types. Drive and vehicle components have been subject to far-reaching developments. This applies to batteries in particular, which are continuously being improved in terms of their efficiency, size, charging time, and charging capacity.

Increasingly stringent requirements for test operations due to increasing battery voltage

To increase vehicle performance, the clear trend is toward higher voltages. Today, cars with a system voltage of 800 V are on the market. Some heavy-duty vehicles achieve voltages of over 1000 V, and systems with 1250 V or 1500 V DC are already in the planning phase. With up to 3.6 kV DC, special-purpose vehicles (e.g., mining vehicles) are even higher. Voltage must be increased in order to enable high charging capacities, since current cannot be randomly increased for reasons of charging cable manageability.

Many high-voltage components that must be tested for function, safety, and reliability in both the development phase and series production are installed in electric and hybrid vehicles. Due to the applicable standards in the automotive industry, comprehensive tests are required for component qualification.

Why Knick?
For challenging measuring and testing tasks, Knick offers a comprehensive assortment of high-precision isolating transducers for measuring currents and voltages in the high-voltage range. It also includes highly isolating and fast high-precision transducers for controlling test devices on high electrical potential. Knick offers these properties and specifications in a broad range of standard products, but is also able to develop customer-specific solutions based on the special requirements of an application.

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Overview of test and measurement-specific applications and product solutions for electromobility

Associated applications

With the help of hardware in the loop (HIL) tests, prototypes of devices like the traction inverters, for example, can be evaluated in various battery, load, and error situations without having to test the converter itself on test benches or in vehicles.
Test systems generate control voltages in a battery model in order to simulate temperature conditions for battery management systems (BMS) and evaluate the temperature management of the BMS.
During battery tests, the charging and discharging operations (battery cycles) are continuously simulated in a HIL (hardware in the loop) configuration that corresponds to the typical use profiles when the electric vehicle is in operation. In the process, a series of parameters are measured, including capacity, battery efficiency, and self-discharging.
The production process of HV heaters involves many steps, with some of them being manual. Various tests are carried out in-line, according to the corresponding manufacturing stages.
For battery electric commercial vehicles, there is a quick-charging option via pantographs. This requires a contact between an external infrastructure system (with movable pantographs) and permanently installed charging rods on the vehicle roof. A DC roof container contains components that check the charging connection and the corresponding voltage, and establish the connection to the other on-board systems.
The test cells used in the manufacturing process are often protected by protective enclosures and voltage detectors.

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