This coordinated project integrates the capabilities of two research teams from the “Universidad Carlos III de Madrid” and the “Universidad del País Vasco”. The project addresses the propulsion system, energy storage and energy management (powertrain) of hybrid electric cars (HEV) based on fuel cells, batteries and supercapacitors.

This project deals with the optimization of the blocks of the HEV system, with the objective of building a demonstrator set that will serve as a flexible research platform and will facilitate the study of the complete system considering different vehicle specifications. In the subproject og the APERT group the research is on the vehicle propulsion system, mainly formed by the driver (inverter) and the motor. The idea is: a) to develop a hybrid modulation technique based on the combination of vector modulation and harmonic cancellation and its implementation on a real-time platform; b) the design, manufacturing and validation of an inverter with optimized performance, based on the parallelization of discrete IGBTs and based on new semiconductor materials (SiC and GaN).