The automotive IPK control module is a fuel-to-electricity conversion control module. This is a pure electric vehicle, BAIC New Energy E150.

IPK is the English abbreviation of Instrument Pack, and the Chinese meaning is instrument cluster. Today’s digital instruments have many entertainment functions such as music, maps, calls, etc.

The instrument is a node on Info CAN, the node name is IPK, also called ICU.

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It can be seen that automobile instruments are still mainly mechanical, and the communication method is mainly wire harness. The biggest disadvantage of this model is that it relies too much on wire harnesses, resulting in complex systems. With the development of the automobile industry, With the rapid development, the automotive electronics market with great potential is increasingly attracting the attention of major automobile manufacturers and electronic product suppliers.

This includes clean energy vehicles that are still in the experimental development stage, in-vehicle audio equipment, in-vehicle computer information terminal equipment, where Japan occupies the world market leader position, and various in-car electronic control units, such as engine electronic controls. Unit, ABS, bus, new electronic instruments, etc. For automobile instruments, the advantage of using electronic instrument panels over traditional instruments lies in the softwareization of hardware functions.