Design vehicles without the simulation wait.
Batteries, new materials, and aerodynamics all wait on simulations that run too slowly or too roughly. Xanadu speeds them up with quantum algorithms and high-performance computing, in work with Volkswagen and Toyota, and a Rolls-Royce result that took airflow from weeks to under an hour.
The Challenge
The bottlenecks in vehicle R&D are simulation bottlenecks.
Two of the hardest problems in vehicle design, a next-gen cell's electrochemistry and a powertrain's airflow, both wait on simulations that today's hardware runs too slowly or too roughly.
Quantum simulation targets the physics today's methods distort. High-performance workflows handle the ones that are simply too slow. Xanadu builds both.
How Xanadu Helps
Quantum acceleration for materials, batteries, and physical design
Next-generation batteries
Time-to-market for new cell chemistries is a competitive bottleneck for every EV program.
Xanadu runs a multi-year quantum program with Volkswagen Group to simulate battery materials for range, safety, and cost.
Advanced materials
Coatings, alloys, and catalysts that make vehicles lighter and cleaner are limited by the accuracy of today's simulations.
Xanadu is pursuing quantum materials simulation with Toyota Research Institute of North America.
Physical simulation at speed
Compute-bound design simulations like powertrain and turbomachinery airflow take weeks per iteration.
On a jet-engine airflow problem, Xanadu, Rolls-Royce, and Riverlane cut runtime from weeks to under an hour, up to 1000× faster.
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