Power converters
Completion requirements
Power semiconductor converters for vehicles with electric or hybrid drive. Traction inverters for supplying the electric motor from the traction battery.
2. Power converters for electric vehicles
2.10. Modern power switches
Blocking voltage
- IGBT: < 6500V
- Si MOSFET: < 950V
- SiC MOSFET: < 3300 V
- GaN: < 650V
- Increase in blocking voltage and rated current
- Increase in switching frequency
- Decrease in losses
- Size reduction