Can electric drivetrains become more modular, reliable and easier to maintain?
The Challenges Today
Growing Power Demand
Applications require ever increasing power ratings
Larger Machines
Single large electrical machines become very big and heavy
More Complex Powertrains
Complex systems with more components and interfaces
Higher Maintenance
More interventions, specialist skills and long downtime
Higher Lifecycle Cost
Increased O&M cost, downtime and total cost of ownership
Expanded torque–speed envelope
Extending the region of delivering high efficiency, high controllability
Can electric drivetrains become more modular, reliable and easier to maintain?
Industries Impacted
Offshore Wind Energy
Multi-MW wind turbine drivetrains
Marine Propulsion
MW Aircraft
Deep-Sea & Space Autonomous Systems
Mining Machinery
Electrified marine vessels
High-power electric and hybrid aircraft
Electrified marine vessels
Electrified heavy equipment
Why Now?
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Power ratings continue to increase
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Electrification is expanding across aviation, marine and heavy industry
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Reliability, downtime and maintenance remain major commercial challenges
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New architectures are needed to improve scalability, flexibility and resilience
Why HDrive?
HDrive is a distributed modular electromechanical powertrain architecture combining:
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multiple high-speed machine modules for engineered redundancy
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 with advanced electromechanical transmission,
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intelligent control and power electronics
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applicable to both motor and generation modes
Potential Benefits
Extended operation
•High efficiency over extended operating range
•educed downtime
 Flexible Scalability
•Scalable to higher power levels
Future Ready
•Supports electrification
•Flexible system integration
•Adaptable across multiple industries
Higher Performance
•Improved reliability
•Built-in fault tolerance
•Flexible modular scalability
•Reduced downtime
•Simplified maintenance
•Easier manufacturing, transportation and installation
Lower Lifetime Cost
•Flexible modular scalability
•Built-in fault tolerance
•Improved reliability
Higher Performance
We'd Like to Learn From You
We are looking for experts who can share their experience and insights on:
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Current drivetrain and propulsion challenges
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Future technology requirements
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Barriers to adoption
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Opportunities for innovative architectures
What We Hope to Achieve
Your insights will help validate assumptions, prioritise development areas and shape the future direction of the HDrive commercialisation process.