Carrier Transicold’s BEV-Focused Pulsor eCool to Make World Debut at IAA Transportation 2022
RUEIL-MALMAISON, France -
Carrier Transicold will unveil an all-new version of its proven, all-electric Pulsor® system at IAA Transportation 2022. The Pulsor eCool™ is the first of its kind specifically designed to operate directly from the high voltage DC current generated by the batteries powering an electric light commercial vehicle (LCV). The new solution will deliver enhanced sustainability to customers choosing to operate a modern, electric urban delivery fleet. Carrier Transicold is a part of Carrier Global Corporation (NYSE: CARR), the leading global provider of healthy, safe, sustainable and intelligent building and cold chain solutions.
Carrier Transicold’s original Pulsor system, released in 2012, was the first LCV unit to harness the electrification potential of the company’s E-Drive™ technology. In a vehicle with an internal combustion engine, the legacy system requires a generator to run on electric power. The new Pulsor eCool, however, has been adapted to use the high voltage DC current from an electric vehicle’s own battery system.
“The design of the original Pulsor unit and its use of E-Drive meant we were ready and prepared for the challenges posed by vehicle electrification,” said Victor Calvo, VP & General Manager, Carrier Transicold. “The development of the Pulsor eCool means we can operate the refrigeration unit without the need of an additional battery pack or a voltage converter. It delivers a sustainable, cost-effective and powerful plug-and-play solution.”
The use of Carrier Transicold’s E-Drive technology – first developed for the Vector® trailer units in 1999 – allows for rapid temperature pull-down and high refrigeration capacity through electric power. The setup removes the traditional mechanical transmissions found in belt-driven refrigeration systems and instead transforms the engine power into electricity to drive a variable speed compressor, reducing the risk of refrigerant leaks and making it ideally suited to operate with batteries.
Calling on more than two decades of reliable performance from the E-Drive, Carrier Transicold’s Pulsor range is already an ideal fit for urban delivery fleets that make frequent stops with multiple door openings. Now, the Pulsor eCool will help the urban logistics players that are increasingly turning toward battery-powered vehicles continue to maintain temperature integrity throughout the delivery cycle – even when working in congested city centres.
To ensure optimal temperature-control performance, with limited impact on operator autonomy, Carrier Transicold is working to create an innovative real-time management system, with the Pulsor eCool unit able to use live vehicle data to ensure optimal temperature management.
Carrier Transicold is also working on additional dedicated applications and functionality designed to better anticipate user needs and relay refrigeration data to the driver. This will allow the system to adapt proactively to vehicle needs in real-time to deliver even more sustainability gains.
The Pulsor eCool system is the latest example of how Carrier Transicold is working to help its customers reduce their carbon footprint by more than 1 gigaton as part of its 2030 Environmental, Social and Governance goal.
For more information on Carrier Transicold products and services, visit www.carriertransicold.eu. Follow Carrier Transicold on Twitter: @SmartColdChain and on LinkedIn at Carrier Transicold Truck Trailer Refrigeration.
About Carrier Transicold
Carrier Transicold helps improve transport and shipping of temperature controlled cargoes with a complete line of equipment and services for refrigerated transport and cold chain visibility. For more than 50 years, Carrier Transicold has been an industry leader, providing customers around the world with advanced, energy-efficient and environmentally sustainable container refrigeration systems and generator sets, direct-drive and diesel truck units and trailer refrigeration systems. Carrier Transicold is a part of Carrier Global Corporation, the leading global provider of healthy, safe, sustainable and intelligent building and cold chain solutions. For more information, visit www.carriertransicold.eu. Follow Carrier on Twitter: @SmartColdChain and on LinkedIn at Carrier Transicold Truck Trailer Refrigeration.
