Industrial Vehicle Technology - August 2024
OFF-HIGHWAY ELECTRIFICATION
2024-07-29 12:20:38
Accelerating the pace of off-highway electrification
DANFOSS POWER SOLUTIONS HAS INTRODUCED THE EDITRON ED3, A NEW ONBOARD CHARGER AND ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLY DESIGNED TO BOOST OFF-HIGHWAY ELECTRIFICATION
ᐅ Battery-electric machine runtime has traditionally been a barrier in electrifying off-highway vehicles. Owners and operators need machinery running to maximise revenues but charging necessitates downtime. While DC charging typically fills the machine’s batteries quicker than AC charging, the infrastructure is more costly and, in many areas, not available. Construction machinery operators will struggle to access DC fast charging. This is because the locations in which they typically operate constantly vary leaving them reliant on AC charging. With the introduction of the Danfoss Editron ED3, electric and hybrid machinery owners can maximise AC charging speeds and minimise infrastructure costs to make electrification attainable for off-highway machinery.
The electric mobility game-changer
The Danfoss Editron ED3 is a bidirectional onboard charger and electric power supply that offers high charging power and distributes energy to a vehicle’s auxiliary functions. Initially designed for on-highway vocational trucks, the ED3 enables overnight and opportunity charging for vehicles using readily available utility outlets. The charger can deliver up to 43 kilowatts to the main high-voltage battery – the highest AC power onboard charger available today – and up to 44kW of AC or DC power as needed to other subsystems.
The ED3’s high-power AC and DC electric power take-off also simplifies integration for OEMs. The product pulls power directly from the main high-voltage battery to support up to 44kW of DC power to auxiliaries such as high-voltage compressors, pumps and motor controllers. It can also convert power and deliver up to 43.6kVA of single or three-phase AC current. These features give OEMs flexibility in designing the vehicle’s system architecture and allow for standardisation of components across all platforms.
With an electrified PTO, the auxiliary functions are no longer connected mechanically to the driveshaft as they are in a traditional PTO. By decoupling from the main driveline, the vehicle chassis has more available space for batteries and other components. This makes it easier for OEMs to install components into their vehicles.
Maximising capabilities, minimising costs
While high-power AC charging enables higher charging speeds, it also significantly lowers a machine owner’s investment in charging infrastructure. Installing a DC fast charger costs, on average, up to 10 times more than an AC charger. When multiplied across a fleet of vehicles, this has a tremendous impact on the business case for electrification and can save owners hundreds of thousands of euros.
Field-tested and proven
Danfoss has proven the capabilities of the Editron ED3 charger and ePTO with Volvo Trucks. Since 2022, the business has been in production with the ED3 for Volvo and Renault’s electric truck platforms. It has also invested in its own fleet of heavy-duty line-haul electric trucks from Volvo which are supporting deliveries from its headquarters in Denmark. The product is now being standardised and released to the general market with prototypes delivered and installed on new vehicle platforms in early 2024.
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