Andromeda Interfaces has launched its Electric Vehicle Interface Controller (EVIC), which displays and allows the user to visualize various vehicle systems. Users can monitor their EVs battery usage, motor controllers and vehicle charging. The EVIC gathers various data — voltage, cell temperatures, amperage, etc. — from the car and displays it in a user-friendly way using easy-to-understand graphics. The EVIC is currently available through Andromeda Interfaces’ website. Read more in the press release below.

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Andromeda Interfaces Introduces their Electric Vehicle Interface Controller (EVIC)

SAN DIEGO—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Andromeda Interfaces introduces their Electric Vehicle Interface Controller (EVIC), which is a fully integrated display device to monitor the operation and safety of your electric vehicle’s major sub-systems. EVIC consolidates all of the information from the electric vehicle into one advanced display device, from monitoring your battery management and charger systems to closely monitoring your motor controllers.

Andromeda Interfaces CEO Brian L Gallagher said, «We are pleased as an organization to have successfully achieved the design and brilliant engineering of EVIC. With the increasing adoption rate of EV consumers making a shift from early adopters to early majority, we wanted to ensure we positioned ourselves to offer scalable, cost-effective and reliable electric vehicle display solutions to satisfy the needs of customers in the fast growing EV aftermarket and OEM space.»

EVIC can gather, interpret, and monitor complex critical EV system data which it then graphically represents for users to easily understand. EVIC currently supports interfaces for motor controllers and battery management systems and is a certified interface for Orion’s Battery Management Systems.

Andromeda Interfaces is proud to have teamed up with Ewert Energy Systems to certify EVIC’s interface with their products. As stated from their Vice President, Andrew Ewert, «We are excited to add official out-of-the-box support for Andromeda Interfaces’ EVIC display module to our Orion Battery Management System product line. We look forward to future collaboration between our two companies.»

Andromeda Interfaces is currently accepting orders of EVIC on their website at: http://ai-displays.com/evic_products/

About Andromeda Interfaces

San Diego-based Andromeda Interfaces designs, develops, and manufactures Human Machine Interface (HMI) electronics and solutions which are scalable to support a variety of commercial and industrial applications. Andromeda Interfaces has a different approach to HMI design and specializes in simplifying HMI interaction by providing the necessary design tools and hardware devices to amplify the creativity of delivering HMI solutions.

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