New Eagle for Those Modest Volumes
Taken from Fleet & Fuels, April 12, 2010 edition. Fleet & Fuels is "Biweekly Business Intelligence for Clean Transportation Professionals"
Michigan’s New Eagle continues to promote both hardware and software for small-volume developers of electric vehicles — the firm can arrange for quality componentry from manufacturers who otherwise supply only established OEMs, and it can help develop the software needed to govern EV systems, ensuring that the EV developers hold the intellectual property rights to the code they develop with New Eagle’s help.
Products handled by New Eagle include MotoTron (controls), MotoHawk (tools, parts and accessories), Kvaser (interfaces and data loggers for CAN bus systems), and Kongsberg (controls).
New Eagle Speaks Tech
“Our applications engineering team has an supervisory controller template that can be used with your combination
of battery, motor/inverter, dashboard, DC and AC components, and other vehicle interfaces,” New Eagle says.
“We can also help solve those tough CAN networking challenges. We use the MotoHawk family of ECUs for the supervisory controller, and have a EV integration module to act as the safety processor and I/O extender to the MotoHawk ECU for your unique I/O configuration.” (I/O is input/output; CAN is controller–area network).
New Eagle is promoting the new VIM-S12-24 vehicle integration module as “flexible I/O controller capable of multiple CAN protocols on 4 CAN channels. It is also a unique complement to a MotoHawk controller in that it provides a watchdog and CAN wake-up function. The first version will be targeted for Electric Vehicles which need the CAN wake-up, compatibility with the single-wire GMLAN (slow speed), and a safety watchdog processor of the MotoHawk controller.”
New Eagle has the support of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, so customers may be eligible for state tax breaks.
The Ann Arbor-based firm also sells power-dense inverters from Oregon’s Rinehart Motion, which promotes 5- to 500-kilowatt capability.
www.neweagle.net; www.rinehartmotion.com
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