Renault E-tech PHEV electrified gearbox
Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2023 10:11 am
I put this info here because Nissan Renault and Mitsubishi belong to the same alliance
I work at an Estonian vocational school and teach car electrical systems. Our graduate student who works at a car company brought us this hybrid transmission. I find it very interesting and try to share what I have discovered.
A few years ago we have built an electric buggy at one Erasmus+ project to study EV-s. There we used old forklift motor with its Curtis controller and Nissan Leaf batteries. At that time the most important point for me was that the studying platform should be with safe voltage 72V DC but now that is not so important anymore because students will have high voltage safety lectures anyway. The buggy is driving but it's really heavy 490kg (1080 lbs) and for simplicity it doesn't have differential at rear axle. It drives fine on the grass but on asphalt and at workshop floor it's horrible to turn.
Now that we got this e-tech gearbox for free it would be good opportunity to learn new things and install this on the buggy and start tinkering with openinverter technology. I have gathered some freely available information about it and now need to get factory data circuit diagrams about how to drive the oil pump and how these many sensors work.
I post this here because I need some advice on how to start, and wich toyota inverter and board would be good to run this motor. At the moment we cannot spend much on this project so the solutions should be economical.
I work at an Estonian vocational school and teach car electrical systems. Our graduate student who works at a car company brought us this hybrid transmission. I find it very interesting and try to share what I have discovered.
A few years ago we have built an electric buggy at one Erasmus+ project to study EV-s. There we used old forklift motor with its Curtis controller and Nissan Leaf batteries. At that time the most important point for me was that the studying platform should be with safe voltage 72V DC but now that is not so important anymore because students will have high voltage safety lectures anyway. The buggy is driving but it's really heavy 490kg (1080 lbs) and for simplicity it doesn't have differential at rear axle. It drives fine on the grass but on asphalt and at workshop floor it's horrible to turn.
Now that we got this e-tech gearbox for free it would be good opportunity to learn new things and install this on the buggy and start tinkering with openinverter technology. I have gathered some freely available information about it and now need to get factory data circuit diagrams about how to drive the oil pump and how these many sensors work.
I post this here because I need some advice on how to start, and wich toyota inverter and board would be good to run this motor. At the moment we cannot spend much on this project so the solutions should be economical.