Ricardo leads in independent hybrid experience, with over 200 engineers with hybrid & electric vehicles development experience
We believe that Ricardo currently has the most experience of hybrid systems and vehicles with the exception of OEMs who have products in the market
What makes Ricardo unique:
- Over 100 hybrids projects completed ranging from business case assessment to vehicle production release
- Expertise from micro to full plug-in hybrid & 100% electric
- Electric Machines, Power Electronics and Energy Storage complete development
- Full Hybrid transmission design & development capability
- Complete hybrid powertrain design and configuration
- Over 40 testbeds capable to receive HEV powertrains for testing
- Establish Center of Excellence for Battery Pack development (Focus on NiMH. Li-ion and next Generation energy storage)
- Algorithm development capability including Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL)
- Cycling capability for packs up to 500V. Environmental control.
- Collaborative R&D projects for Hybrids efficiency improvement
HiCeps project: Highly Integrated Combustion Electric Propulsion System
RedLion project: Next generation battery for Hybrids (Half the size, 1/3 the cost)
Sentience project: Location-aware control of a Hybrid powertrain. Led by Ricardo with Ford, TRL, Orange and Ordnance Survey as partners
Our core technical capabilities include:
Powertrain and Vehicle
- Vehicle engineering & system simulation
- Engine and transmission design and development for hybrids
- Prototype and pre-production build
- Production design and release
Controls and Electronics
- System simulation
- Control strategy development
- Embedded software development
- Software tools
- Hardware-in-the-loop application
Electric Machines, Power Electronics and Energy Storage
- Motor development
- Electronic hardware (including power electronics) development and validation
- Energy storage modelling, and test and validation
- Regenerative braking system
Ricardo hybrid expertise covers all aspects of the V-Cycle from Business case assessment to Production Release – successful delivery of a wide variety of over 100 hybrids projects