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发布于 2021 一月 15

AAM 技术专家在汽车新闻 CES 专门小组中讨论电动汽车

一年一度的 CES 展会是久负盛名的全球创新舞台，2021 年以数字方式举办，其中包括一个由 AAM 产品工程副总裁 Craig Renneker 主持的专门小组。

汽车新闻 Shift Mobility 论坛是 CES 的一个合作伙伴活动，由来自汽车、移动、技术、电信和公共部门的专家参加，他们在四个为时一小时的会议中谈到了全球移动性的发展。

“电动汽车与电气化之路”会议讨论了电动汽车技术的未来。来自美国政府、汽车制造商和供应商的代表讨论了各种主题，包括里程焦虑、充电基础设施、公众接受度和车辆性能。

Renneker 讨论了 AAM 的下一代电驱动技术，该技术围绕高度集成的三合一系统，包括电机、变速箱和逆变器，全部由 AAM 设计、策划和制造。AAM 的系统设计方法采用功率密集、高效且以成本为中心的模块化单元，可为汽车制造商扩展其混合动力和纯电动汽车产品系列。

关于向消费者介绍电动汽车性能：

电动机非常棒，零转速时达到峰值扭矩，您拥有如此出众的加速，感觉很好。所以，我认为，如果我们能让人们去感受它，让他们坐在车里，试驾一下，体验加速的感觉，真的能够帮助人们喜欢上它。如果您坐进 I-PACE，踩下加速踏板，那么事情会很快获得进展。

关于电动汽车的大众市场采用：

我们必须能够使驱动单元和车辆的其余部分更便宜，从而让大众市场客户负担得起。我可以肯定地说，AAM 正在进行大量的创新工作，以我们如今拥有的极出色驱动（单元）为例，我们在 Jaguar I-PACE 中安装了该驱动单元，这是一款非常出色的驱动单元；但它们需要做得更小，以便可以装入较小的车辆中，并且价格也要便宜得多。我们正在做大量的工作，试图降低成本，以使销量可以增长，并且可以进入一些成本较低车辆的市场。

关于供应行业满足不断增长的技术需求的能力：

我认为，我们将会看到这样一种趋势，那就是至少让电机大大加快，这样它们就可以变得更小。更快的电机以小得多的尺寸产生相同的功率。尺寸越小，所用的铜就越少，稀土磁体更少，钢也更少。这种降低成本的创新也将减少我们对这些关键材料的需求。

从设计驱动单元的角度来看，无论是小型车辆还是大型车辆，我们还没有见过我们无法为其开发电力驱动的车辆。在小型汽车方面，我们需要做更多的工作，使驱动单元更小和更便宜，扩大对小型汽车的渗透。

在较大的车辆方面，我们必须应对拥有大马力车辆和大马力拖车的那些用户，没问题，我们可以制造驱动单元来推动这些车辆，但如今他们是否有足够的能力在那个负载非常大的市场中做他们需要做的事情。我认为，在我们朝着 100% 电动汽车普及的目标迈进的过程中，这将会非常有趣。电动汽车的未来当然是光明的。 

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