Looking at the news on any given day you’ll see a story on a new type of electric or alternate fuel vehicle—from cars, motorcycles and trucks to tractors, boats and even airplanes. While these advancements are exciting, these new categories of vehicles create some real challenges for manufacturers ...
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Greater demands on EV batteries call for more stringent leak testing methods
on July 30, 2020
| By Chuck Hagyard Sr. Business Development Manager
|
Leak Testing,
Electric Vehicle Testing,
CTS Solution
Over the past few years, we have seen a substantial shift in the automotive market towards electric vehicles. As EV sales continue to rise, automobile manufacturers are extending their electric options to more of their line, which has included high-performance electric sports cars, trucks, and ...
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EV battery pack leak testing: Challenges and solutions
on July 23, 2020
| By Chuck Hagyard Sr. Business Development Manager
|
Leak Testing,
Electric Vehicle Testing,
CTS Solution
One of the great technical challenges of manufacturing electric vehicles is ensuring the performance and safety of the large battery packs which power them. A leaking battery is more than just an inconvenience. The most common type of EV battery, lithium ion, can burst into flame or even explode if ...
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The success of any leak test rests with understanding how to control your variables. The larger the part volume, the more pronounced these variables can become. Why? Larger cavities require larger volumes of air to be pumped into them to conduct the test. The more air that is compressed into a ...
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Case Study: Electric Drive Assembly Testing
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