FLICK OF THE SWITCH: HOW BETTER AC/DC INVERSION WILL BOOST EVS

摘要

ELECTRIC VEHICLE TECHNOLOGY is steeped in jargon, and a term that crops up more than most is inverter. The inverter is one of the most important components lurking beneath the skin of any EV, and that's because the motor and battery in any electric drivetrain would be completely incompatible without it. British firm Equipmake, which builds the innovative high-speed Ampere EV motor we looked at recently (1 April), has also developed an inverter that's smaller, lighter, more efficient and able to get more bang-for-buck out of a battery.