Friday, 14 November 2014

Panasonic’s portfolio focuses on EVs

Panasonic Automotive & Industrial Systems Europe (PAISEU) has been exhibited for the first time, as a newly founded consolidated company at electronica 2014, held at the Messe Munich over 11-14 November 2014

‘Panasonic has a fantastic portfolio enabling us to develop comprehensive solutions for the automotive industry and industrial markets. This allows us to provide our customers a clear competitive advantage in their respective fields.’

At the foundation of the new European company, Dr Steger, president of Panasonic Automotive & Industrial Systems Europe commented, ‘Panasonic has a fantastic portfolio enabling us to develop comprehensive solutions for the automotive industry and industrial markets. This allows us to provide our customers a clear competitive advantage in their respective fields.’

At the booth it can be seen how Panasonic's components, modules and devices can be used in different automotive applications.

As resources are becoming scarcer and ecological considerations are gaining importance, electric and hybrid vehicles are becoming more prominent. Panasonic has invested in the manufacture of cylindrical lithium-ion battery cells to power EVs, such as the Tesla on the booth, and innovated in heat pump technology that reduces the energy needed for climate control.

Additionally, Panasonic exhibits a number of components for power management in vehicles.

To guarantee the safety of the new generation of vehicles, the HV relays play a key role when it comes to disconnecting the circuits. This is why Panasonic focuses on the technology on which the HV relay is based continually refining its relay technology in order to be prepared for future applications in the rapidly growing market of electric and hybrid vehicles.

Millions of EV relays are already designed into all kinds of vehicles and the company's power film capacitor modules which are used in snubber, filter and DC-Link applications in HEVs/EVs can also be seen.

The company's power film capacitor modules which are used in snubber, filter and DC-Link applications in HEVs/EVs can also be seen.

Panasonic has recently expanded its switches family and the new subminature long switch, ASQM, has sliding contacts and a compact structure which, with IP67, works for tactile detection tasks in environments where space is limited and conditions are rough such as automotive door locking systems.