TECHNOLOGY REPORT to the Saietta portfolio, which will help the company to realize its desire to produce electric drive systems for trucks and buses. The e-axle designed by e-Traction has the inverter packaged within the drive motors. Kist described it as " a fairly standard outrunner motor " but with direct drive, similar to Saienna's AFT philosophy. Inside the motor The first prototypes of the e-Tractiondesigned e-axle have been built and tested. The principal components of the Saietta AFT motor include a pair of cold-formed, copper hairpin-shaped coils. " That pair is a discrete coil, which you can hold in an assembly line so you can make the entire stator fully automated, " Kist explained. The stator ring is extruded and the lamination packs are of grain-oriented steel. The rotor is formed from mild steel and the motor is Saietta CEO Vic Kist with skateboard-type EV chassis. surrounded by a small cooling jacket. " Torque is r times force and basically because our effective diameter is bigger (compared with a radial-flux motor), we can achieve a higher torque for the same current, " he said. Acquiring the e-axle technology has accelerated Saietta's plans for powering heavy vehicles. He had been planning to work on similar technology with the aim of introducing the company's own power electronics in three years. ICU HV Connector (Integrated Central control Unit) BFA HV/LV Wiring Harness Built-in Cam Battery Disconnect Unit (Busbar Frame Assembly) HV Junction Block HV Charging Coupler AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING Free Info at http://info.hotims.com/82330-705 March 2022 7 SAIETTAhttp://info.hotims.com/82330-705