MITRE - MicroTurbine Range Extender

Project: Central government, health and local authorities

Project Details

Description

Building on Delta TSB-supported feasibility study, the aim of this project is to design and build a small, light weight and most importantly low cost microturbine-based generator for use as a range extender for electric vehicles. The holistic approach taken by Delta to understanding the challenges posed by vehicle electrification has highlighted that a low cost, compact range extender is a very important enabling technology its addition to an electric vehicle will reduce the vehicle cost (by displacing some of the batteries) while also offering its owner greater availability and range. Delta is starting afresh with the microturbine, optimising it for the automotive range extender application. The chosen size of 15kW will allow the device to be extremely compact whilst still delivering sufficient power to cover the vast majority of usage scenarios.
StatusFinished
Effective start/end date1/08/1430/04/16

Funding

  • Innovate UK Innovate Business Connect

Fingerprint

Explore the research topics touched on by this project. These labels are generated based on the underlying awards/grants. Together they form a unique fingerprint.