InMotion

Charging ahead

InMotion is a student team affiliated with Eindhoven University of Technology that focuses on sustainable mobility. InMotion's goal is to solve the only obstacle still preventing people from driving electric, namely charging time. InMotion is going to reduce this charging time to the time it takes to fill the tank of a traditional car, which they call Electric Refueling. They want to put the potential of fast-charging on stage by competing in the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the Garage 56 class with an all-electric race car. In doing so, the team is forcing itself to develop battery technology that will be decisive for the auto industry.

Racecar 'The Revolution'

InMotion started building the current race car, The Revolution, in 2019. The car already achieved a top speed of 260 kilometers per hour during tests at Circuit Zandvoort and, according to models, it can even go towards 300 kilometers per hour. Noteworthy is the battery pack, which has the same capacity as a standard Tesla Model 3 (58 kilowatt hours) but charges at least twice as fast, namely in less than twelve minutes.  Currently, the InMotion team is working on the next-generation battery pack, aiming to reduce charging time to a few minutes. InMotion's ultimate goal: To be the first in the world to finish the Le Mans 24-hour race fully electric.

Years of cooperation

ICT Group and Inmotion have been working together since 2015, specifically the Motar team of ICT Electronics. Motar is ICT Group's platform for model-based software development for vehicles. With the platform, people with and without programming knowledge can work (together) graphically on a functional model in the familiar MATLAB/Simulink environment. From the Simulink model, the platform automatically and faultlessly generates the corresponding software for the electronic control unit (ECU) of TTTech Auto.