Transportation

Motors and Generators for Electric Ships

Industry analysts forecast the conversion to electric ship propulsion will accelerate the growth of the current $400 million ship propulsion motors and generators market to $2-4 billion annually in the next ten years. Today nearly 100 percent of all cruise ships and many cargo ships have transitioned to electric motor propulsion systems and the U.S. Navy has announced its intention to transition to electric propulsion.

AMSC has delivered high temperature superconductor (HTS) motors  to the U.S. Navy and will partner with commecial ship builders on design and development of motors and generators for megayachts and cruise ships. >>More on superconductor motors and generators

Other future forms of transportation using superconductor materials include magnetic levitation (maglev) trains like the ones in Japan, ferry boats and LNG tankers.

Power Converters for Mobile Transportation

AMSC manufactures the PowerModule™ power converter that is being designed into a variety of commercial and military transportationsystems. One ongoing project is using the PowerModule converter in a Canadian hybrid bus.  >> More on PowerModule projects