Panasonic

Overview

Panasonic is a global supplier of the critical components driving the transition to electric vehicles. With vast engineering and manufacturing capability at their disposal, they’re able to quickly tool up and produce custom componentry at scale that helps our customers design and build better cars. They also supply most of the world’s DC-link capacitors that power EV inverters. Electric vehicles present unique sound-management challenges posed by the lack of Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) noise. Rather than a parallel technology to ICE-powered vehicle sound management, Panasonic understood early on that electronic sound synthesis (ESS) for EVs represented a new paradigm requiring the application of entirely new technologies. Their EV noise management systems target the higher-frequencies emitted by EVs which become more conspicuous without competing ICE-generated noise.