Another Successful Year at the 9th International CTI Symposium for Drive System Design

Drive System Design recently exhibited at the 9th CTI conference, successfully showcasing their transmission and driveline design competencies with a wide range of interested parties through the use of their exhibition stand.

The stand featured hardware demonstrating both the new ‘Tractic’ Differential and ‘Camcon' Actuator.  The  Tractic Differential is a novel passive limited slip (LSD) concept differential that can be tuned by multiple vehicle parameters such as vehicle speed.  The device has great potential to improve on current LSD functionality and also provide a lower cost route than existing active devices.  It also has proven potential in torque vectoring applications.  The Camcon actuator is a new electrical actuator design for gearshift applications.

DSD’s Technical Director, Alex Tylee-Birdsall,  presented an extremely well attended paper on ‘Design Methods for Electric Vehicle Transmissions’, an area where DSD excel.  DSD were recently was recognised as industry leading by the BEEA who presented DSD with the coveted ‘Consultancy Of The Year’ award noting DSD were the ‘go to’ consultancy  for electric vehicle design.  This presentation was of particular interest to EV manufacturers many of whom are looking to make the step to multispeed transmissions on their upcoming product ranges.

This year the CTI also included a separate poster area with 7 posters from different companies. Two of the posters were from DSD, one for the Tractic differential the other for powershifting AMT experience.

If you would like a copy of the ‘electric vehicle transmission design’ paper or presentation, an electronic copy of one of the posters or more information on any aspect of this article please contact info@drivesystemdesign.com