EV thermal & energy management

Design, modelling, control and validation built around thermal, energy and lifetime requirements.

Capabilities

01

Systems & component development

Heat pumps, coolant loops, integrated heat exchangers and thermal storage.

02

Structural topology optimisation

Material and flow-channel layout optimisation, including cold-plate channels.

03

Multi-level testing & evaluation

Component test benches, HIL, vehicle duty cycles and reliability testing.

04

Thermal & energy management

Electro-mechanical-thermal coupling, power split and coordinated thermal control.

Selected work

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Bench photograph of a hardware-in-the-loop test rig: an aluminium frame carrying power electronics, current sensors, coolant lines and dense wiring harnesses.
EV Thermal

Modelling & validation platform

  • 1D system and 3D flow/thermal models calibrated against measured data — component calibration, system coupling and multi-condition test correlation.
  • Rapid prototyping and hardware-in-the-loop for real-time control-strategy evaluation — dSPACE / MicroAutoBox / HIL.
  • Component test benches, vehicle duty cycles and reliability testing.

Bench and real-time rig, built and instrumented in-house.

Two plots of air-conditioning energy consumption over time, comparing an MPC controller against a PID controller.
EV Thermal

Thermal & energy management control

  • System and battery-state models fused to co-ordinate propulsion power with thermal actuators.
  • MPC and ECMS strategies benchmarked against a baseline controller in co-simulation.
  • Layered evaluation: model simulation, HIL and vehicle test, with performance and real-time capability judged separately.

Air-conditioning energy draw, MPC versus PID, over an environmental cycle.

Photograph of an instrumented vehicle on a chassis dynamometer inside a climatic test cell.
EV Thermal

Hybrid-vehicle thermal management co-development

  • System model built and calibrated against bench and vehicle measurements.
  • Component concept matched to the thermal duty cycle — compressors, valves, coolant loops and heat exchangers.
  • Coordinated control strategy across power split and thermal flow, assessed on a vehicle-level environmental cycle.

Vehicle-level environmental cycle, run in the climatic test cell.

Tell us what the vehicle needs

Send the requirement, the constraints and the deadline. You get an honest read on what it takes.

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