Electrical motor producer Orbis Electrical has launched HaloDrive, an axial flux motor-generator designed for industrial transportation and industrial functions. The system contains a modular four-part structure with an injection-molded plastic stator and adjustable gearset configurations.
The motor could be deployed throughout a number of sectors together with industrial transportation, trucking fleets, passenger automobiles, marine programs, and aerospace platforms. Orbis positions the know-how as a substitute for standard Everlasting Magnet Synchronous Motors at present utilized in electrical automobile functions.
In keeping with the corporate, HaloDrive has been examined by passenger automobile producers for in-wheel propulsion programs and by heavy-duty trucking fleets as diesel substitute turbines. In industrial functions, Orbis stories the motor has improved one buyer’s fleet gas effectivity by 61 %.
“Our imaginative and prescient with HaloDrive is to considerably advance how companies transition to electrification by eradicating electrical motor obstacles akin to deployment prices, materials and manufacturability dangers, and efficiency limitations,” stated Probability Claxton, CEO of Orbis Electrical. “With HaloDrive, we provide a high-performance axial flux motor that’s not solely extremely environment friendly and highly effective but additionally environmentally sustainable.”
The motor system is designed to suit inside automobile wheels, which the corporate says reduces automobile weight and may enhance vary by 20 %. When configured as a generator, set up requires roughly three hours based on Orbis specs.
One goal utility includes electrical transport refrigeration models in industrial vans. The HaloDrive system could be put in on drivetrains or axles to transform braking power into electrical energy for cell refrigeration programs, eliminating dependence on diesel-powered refrigeration models. Orbis claims this configuration reduces diesel refrigeration gas consumption to zero and operates at 90 % decrease value than standard programs.
The motor delivers torque density of 100 Newton-meters per kilogram and operates at as much as 97 % effectivity. Orbis stories the system gives as much as 35 % decrease drivetrain prices in comparison with radial flux motors whereas supporting a number of drivetrain positions with out requiring structural modifications to automobiles.
“Our strategy with HaloDrive is and at all times has been about making a motor that not solely meets the fast electrification wants throughout a spread of industries, however can be compact and environment friendly sufficient to place companies for future power and sustainability requirements,” stated Marcus Hays, founder and CTO of Orbis Electrical.
The corporate notes that transportation accounts for 39 % of US carbon dioxide emissions and 12 % globally, whereas inefficient electrical motors eat one-third of worldwide electrical energy. Orbis estimates its know-how may scale back emissions by 1.4 billion metric tons of CO2 if broadly adopted.
