Drive Motor Designs for Electric Motorcycles（电动摩托车驱动电动机的设计）.pdf

Drive Motor Designs for Electric Motorcycles David G. Dorrell Mircea Popescu University of Technology Sydney Motor Design Ltd Sydney, Australia Elsmere, UK david.dorrell@.au mircea.popescu@ Abstract—This paper addresses the design of motors for interior magnet rotor (IPM) to allow for reluctance torque. electric motorcycle racing. These tend to be high torque-dense The sinusoidal current is controlled using an encoder (unless brushless permanent-magnet machines (either DC or AC) a sensorless strategy is used) and the Toyota Prius motor has operating over a very wide speed range with an extended an IPM; it runs with constant phase advance up to 60 deg maximum power range above base speed. The thermal design elec. As illustrated in [1], the reluctance torque approaches and operation are key to their successful utilization and this is the same magnitude as the excitation torque and this makes it a major focus of this paper. The motors can operate at very a very high efficiency machine without substantial torque high current density for a short time during acceleration. ripple. Automotive machines often use very high current density, possibly up to 25 A/mm2 and they are cooled using I. INTRODUCTION water, oil or other fluid cooling.