Improving safety in EV traction inverter systems

Electric vehicle designers can increase the safety and reliability of traction inverter systems by monitoring the gate voltage threshold. When a consumer purchases a vehicle, they assume that the design engineers did their due diligence to create a safe product. In order to achieve a necessary level of safety, especially in regard to International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 26262 standards, subsystems within a vehicle such as the traction inverter must include internal diagnostics and protection features to help detect potential failure modes.