QPT’s Crowdcube funding round passes £1M
UK specialist in GaN-based electric motor controls reaches funding milestone
QPT, a UK-based specialist in developing GaN-based electric motor controls, has announced that its Crowdcube funding round has just passed the one million pound milestone.
Rupert Baines, QPT’s new CEO, said: “QPT’s qGaN technology is a unique solution for the issues of overheating and RF interference that currently limit the speeds that GaN can be driven at. Now GaN transistors can be run at much higher speeds that any other rival technology – 20 times faster than SiC for example.
"The higher the speed, the less power is wasted in the motor control which can be very significant and the power savings rapidly add up as 45 percent of the world’s electricity is used by electric motors in industry, transportation, heat pumps and electric vehicles. Our solution is smaller with a significantly lower system cost and saves more energy than rivals according to our studies.”
