Electromagnetic Sizing Validation of Double Cage Induction Motor for Electric Vehicles Using Finite Element Simulation

Dual-cage induction motors (DCIM) have been vastly used and analyzed in industrial applications over the last decades. Nevertheless, designing DCIM oriented towards electromobility applications is yet an unaddressed task. This paper introduces a methodology for designing a dual-cage squirrel cage induction motor (IM) intended for electric vehicles. A 48-stator slot/40-rotor slot, 4-pole IM is selected as the study case to validate the proposed methodology. The validation was conducted through finite element (FE) simulation by ANSYS software package, with acceptable agreement. The findings of this research provide a quick tool to design dual-cage IM with low computational burden.