Salient Motion (Accelerator)

Company Description: Hardware sensors are the most unreliable part of the system; they are difficult to interface with, yet the most critical component in a motor. Additionally, removing a single high accuracy position sensor saves over $200 in sensor cost and assembly. Salient Motion replaces hardware with software and leaves rare earth materials behind; for the first time, Salient's team has achieved performance parity using ferrite instead of neodymium when using its software. Its backwards compatible software enables automotive companies to not only remove the sensor on all new drivetrains but perform remote software updates on all existing vehicles in the fleet. For established OEMs and new incumbents manufacturing vehicles, designing and producing the electric drivetrain takes months of engineering and large amounts of money (need components that are critical and mostly come from China). The limited number of companies selling this parts have been around for 40 years and are usually very good at making hardware but not software. Salient Motion has figured out a way to detect the position of the magnets for the magnetic field to rotate (leading to motor rotation) without using sensors, just software.