Light electric vehicle

Enhance light electric vehicle performance and cost-effectiveness with our products and system solutions

Our expertise in light electric vehicle systems can help you accelerate the development process and make your designs more affordable, while ensuring high quality. Leverage our extensive product portfolio, comprehensive systems overview and reference designs to remain competitive when designing high-performance systems.

Select a light EV application

Discover our design resources for light electric vehicle (EV) applications. From interactive reference diagrams with subsystem product recommendations to technical white papers and trending blog posts, find the application resources you need here to speed up your design cycle.

Explore our light EV systems by interacting with the diagram to the right.

OBC & DC/DC converter

Higher-end light EVs tend to integrate chargers and DC/DC converters on board. Accelerate your time to market with our cost-effective, space-saving designs – adaptable solutions that scale with your needs.

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Vehicle control unit

A vehicle control unit (VCU) is the brain that orchestrates all systems in your light EV. Our integrated circuits provide powerful and efficient management of VCUs, ensuring smooth operation.

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Human machine interface

Our intelligent integrated circuits can help you design reliable, interactive and user-friendly human machine interfaces, allowing for customization according to different needs.

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Headlight

Our LED drivers for high-brightness headlight illumination increase design flexibility and mitigate EMI with integrated field-effect transistors, flexible analog and pulse-width modulation dimming modes, and integrated spread spectrum.

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Offboard charger

Leverage our extensive portfolio and reference designs to build a highly efficient offboard charger, saving space and costs for your light EV.

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Traction inverter

In light EVs, the traction inverter is the heart of the propulsion system. Our portfolio encompasses the essential components to build high-performance traction inverters that maximize efficiency while minimizing size and cost.

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Battery management system

Our integrated circuits and reference designs can help you create a low-voltage battery management system with highly accurate monitoring and control over the battery stack, making systems safer, more compact and more efficient.

arrow-right View low-voltage battery management system block diagram
OBC & DC/DC converter
Vehicle control unit
Human machine interface
Headlight
Offboard charger
Traction inverter
Battery management system

Why choose TI for your light electric vehicle?

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Accelerate time to market

Accelerate your development process by leveraging our technical expertise. Our reference designs can help you build a high-performing foundation for evaluation.

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Maximize driving range

Achieve higher efficiency with our high-precision analog products, combined with high-performance digital processing power to extend driving range.

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Reduce the size of your design

Integration at the device and system level helps improve the power density of your design while enabling a more compact solution.

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Design more affordably

Drive cost efficiencies by harnessing our scalable product portfolio. With our technical resources, we can help you find the right component for your application.

Enabling technologies

Precise sensing and monitoring are essential for reliable and efficient designs.

Our low-latency devices push the design limits, enabling you to run tight control loops and react quickly to faults. Noise immunity and low-drift product over temperature are essential for an efficient design in any working condition.

Our processor solutions for your light electric vehicle designs include real-time control capability, an integrated high-performance analog signal chain, and enhanced pulse-width modulation peripherals to efficiently control your powertrain. High-performance microcontrollers with a rich set of peripherals can support more complex control algorithms, integrating multiple subsystems. These devices which have a legacy in motor control, and digital power applications also enable faster software development through model-based designs with automatic code generation. Our scalable portfolio, based on different industrial and automotive grade processors, helps make product selection easier.

Optimizing the power stage plays a crucial role in any powertrain design, and has a direct influence on the overall performance of a light electric vehicle. Focusing on factors such as noise immunity and resiliency increases system reliability.

Our portfolio of single-, half- and full-bridge gate drivers supports different subsystems, while their high integration enables a reduction in external circuitry to save board space and cost.

Gallium nitride (GaN) devices provide faster switching of the power stage, directly reducing weight, size and cost of the overall system.

Featured tools

Reference design
Two- and three-wheeler traction inverter reference design

TIDM-02017 is a 5kW 48V traction-inverter reference design which aims to provide a foundation for you to develop high-performance high-efficiency traction-inverter systems for 2-wheeler and 3-wheeler applications and help you get to market faster. The design features a F28P65x C2000™ (...)

Reference design
Universal input, 500-W CC/CV e-Bike charger reference design
This reference design is a universal input, 71.4-V, 7-A constant current, constant voltage (CC/CV) charger for e-bike applications. The UCC28180 device is used for CCM PFC stage for 0.99 power factor and low-current total harmonic distortion. The UCC256403 is used for a half-bridge resonant (...)
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10s-16s battery pack reference design with accurate cell measurement and high-side MOSFET control
This reference design is a low standby and ship-mode current consumption and high cell voltage accuracy 10s–16s Lithium-ion (Li-ion), LiFePO4 battery pack design. It monitors each cell voltage, pack current, cell and MOSFET temperature with high accuracy and protects the Li-ion, LiFePO4 (...)

TI reference designs

Use our reference design selection tool to find designs that best match your application and parameters.

Featured products

Real-time digital power MCUs TMS320F28P550SJ ACTIVE C2000™ 32-bit MCU with 150MHz 1.1MB flash C28x + CLA, five ADCs, CLB, AES and NPU
Brushed DC (BDC) motor drivers DRV8706-Q1 ACTIVE Automotive 40-V H-bridge smart gate driver with offline diagnostics & inline current sense am
Gallium nitride (GaN) power stages LMG3100R017 ACTIVE 100V 1.7mΩ GaN FET with integrated driver
Battery monitors & balancers BQ76952 ACTIVE 3-s to 16-s high-accuracy battery monitor and protector for Li-ion, Li-polymer and LiFePO4
General-purpose MCUs MSPM0G3507 ACTIVE 80MHz Arm® Cortex®-M0+ MCU with 128KB flash 32KB SRAM 2x4Msps ADC, DAC, 3xCOMP, 2xOPA, CAN-FD, MATHA
BLDC drivers DRV3256-Q1 ACTIVE Integrated 3-phase 48-V automotive Gate Driver Unit (GDU) with 2.5-A peak sink gate drive current

Technical resources

Technical article
Technical article
Fast and furious: designing longer-lasting 16S-17S Li-ion battery packs for e-moto
Read this article to learn how we are generating longer run times by addressing three design concerns.
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Application brief
Application brief
eBike Position Sensor Functions
Read this application brief on the many functions of position sensing and how they are applied in electric bike applications.
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Analog Design Journal
Analog Design Journal
Selecting amplifiers for shunt-based current sensing in 3-phase motor drives
Read this article on the current-shunt options in three-phase inverters.
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