Renault uses Maple to develop new motor for full electric vehicle

In order to successfully enter the growing electric vehicle market, Renault wanted to create a new motor design. Rather than restricting themselves to existing designs and processes that are often inadequate in handling both driving pleasure and mass production requirements, teams were given the opportunity to start with blank canvases, while respecting standard constraints of deadlines, budgets and quality.

In particular, a group led by Patrick Orval, a Computational Modeling and Simulation Methods Engineer, was in charge of structural analysis for the wound rotor of the motor. In the earlier phases, they turned to Maple and started quickly with first-order approximations of the rotor. They got a sense of how the components would behave with different parameters and operating conditions, allowing accurate choices to be made for the main dimensions.

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