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.
View offboard charger block diagramTraction 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.
View traction inverter block diagramBattery 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.
View low-voltage battery management system block diagramWhy choose TI for your light electric vehicle?
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.
Maximize driving range
Achieve higher efficiency with our high-precision analog products, combined with high-performance digital processing power to extend driving range.
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.
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.
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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™ (...)