Electrification of vehicles is a megatrend. Both on-road and off-road vehicles are seeing increasing conversion to electric for performance or environmental reasons or both. Applications exist for power transmission (i.e., basic drive function) as well as countless work vehicle extensions (e.g. lifting, loading, carrying, moving, braking, etc.) Automatic Guided Vehicles (AGVs), driven by electric power for use in warehouses, are also rapidly increasing in availability, application and utility.
Unmanned vehicles are now available for all kinds of novel applications in the sea, on land or in the air. Another application that requires unique power control is high speed compressors for cooling of electric vehicle or fuel cell motors. Performance Controls motor controllers are used today for AGVs and other EV applications.