Electrical motor producer Orbis Electrical has launched HaloDrive, an axial flux motor-generator designed for business transportation and industrial purposes. The system contains a modular four-part structure with an injection-molded plastic stator and adjustable gearset configurations.
The motor may be deployed throughout a number of sectors together with business transportation, trucking fleets, passenger automobiles, marine programs, and aerospace platforms. Orbis positions the know-how as a substitute for standard Everlasting Magnet Synchronous Motors presently utilized in electrical automobile purposes.
In response to 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 business purposes, 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 corresponding to deployment prices, materials and manufacturability dangers, and efficiency limitations,” mentioned Probability Claxton, CEO of Orbis Electrical. “With HaloDrive, we provide a high-performance axial flux motor that isn’t solely extremely environment friendly and highly effective but in addition environmentally sustainable.”
The motor system is designed to suit inside automobile wheels, which the corporate says reduces automobile weight and might enhance vary by 20 %. When configured as a generator, set up requires roughly three hours based on Orbis specs.
One goal software includes electrical transport refrigeration models in business vans. The HaloDrive system may be put in on drivetrains or axles to transform braking vitality into electrical energy for cellular 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 price 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 method with HaloDrive is and all the time has been about making a motor that not solely meets the quick electrification wants throughout a variety of industries, however can be compact and environment friendly sufficient to place companies for future vitality and sustainability requirements,” mentioned 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 devour one-third of world electrical energy. Orbis estimates its know-how may scale back emissions by 1.4 billion metric tons of CO2 if broadly adopted.
