EV, HEV & Alternate Fuel Vehicles

Electric and hybrid vehicle development

InDepth supports new vehicle programs and conversions for cars, vans, trucks, and specialty platforms. Our experience covers lightweight body design, motors and gensets, chassis and mounts, transmission integration, crash, NVH, durability, optimization, and test correlation.

Battery systems

• Cell, module, pack, and enclosure concepts
• Steel, aluminum extrusion, and composite construction
• Crash, fatigue, NVH, and thermal load cases
• Cooling-system and full-vehicle integration
• Material-model development and component/full-vehicle correlation

Propane and natural-gas conversions

• Packaging and integration for commercial vehicles
• Tank, exhaust, fuel-line, and harness routing
• Departure-angle and compliance checks
• Crash barriers and durability validation
• Low-volume, QVM-aware design solutions